Today I am grateful for all that I have and the time (unknown) that I have left to enjoy.
Our days are numbered but none of us knows that number. So today – I choose to give it all I’ve got…. To shine bright, dream big and be honest in kindness and love. The headlines this weekend were hard to take - another life lost well before the time we'd hoped to have them with us. It serves as a great reminder to me about how I live each day. I don't want to leave with unresolved relationships, but rather with love. I know there will be those who misunderstood me, but that will always be the case - I am responsible only for the love I extend, not whether or not it's received. So because I don't know the time or day, I will enjoy this day and love....simply love as best I know how.
And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them. (Psalm 139:16b)
Showing posts with label legacy of love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legacy of love. Show all posts
Monday, February 13, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Attitude of Gratitude - Inspired by a Legacy of Love
A young police officer and Marine boldly in Afganistan and his two tours in Iraq, and more quietly here stateside lived out a legacy each and every day that encouraged and inspired. Every day simple gestures that changed the world around him....yet to him, a simple act of kindness so much a part of his nature that it required no deliberation or second thought. Little did he know buying cookies for a young boy would be his last interaction with another on this earth.
How would you be remembered? Would it be your kindness? love? mercy? inspiration or even sense of humor that lit a room? Would it be an act "heard round the world" such as our young police officer?
And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body [a]to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 [b]bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails;(1 Corinthians 13:3-8a)
I hope the following inspires you to live your life out loud in love and listen to that voice inside of you that prompts you to act and JUST DO IT. Every step you take will become more familiar and before you know it, your life will reflect a life of love and kindness and every day will hold "life changing" moments as those around you witness/feel your love in action.
http://www.godvine.com/Police-Officer-s-Final-Act-of-Kindness-Caught-on-Tape-Before-Dying-1065.html
How would you be remembered? Would it be your kindness? love? mercy? inspiration or even sense of humor that lit a room? Would it be an act "heard round the world" such as our young police officer?
And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body [a]to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 [b]bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails;(1 Corinthians 13:3-8a)
I hope the following inspires you to live your life out loud in love and listen to that voice inside of you that prompts you to act and JUST DO IT. Every step you take will become more familiar and before you know it, your life will reflect a life of love and kindness and every day will hold "life changing" moments as those around you witness/feel your love in action.
http://www.godvine.com/Police-Officer-s-Final-Act-of-Kindness-Caught-on-Tape-Before-Dying-1065.html
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Attitude of Gratitude - Quakes and Love
This week (as of 11:17 p.m. 12/28/2011) California and Nevada experienced a total of 731 earthquakes. They weren't strong enough to be notable and weren't even found newsworthy enough to make the evening news. They vary between 300 to 1000 per week in number, dependent upon what else is happening along the Pacific rim and the tektonic plate that bounds it.
While often unnoticed, should any one of them "rock our world," we would certainly take notice. It is much like walking in the grocercy store - shopping amidst those whose worlds have been rocked by foreclosure, illness, death or other relational pain. We don't even notice unless they act in some way out of the ordinary: show tears, talk to themselves or seem to speak aloud at one who is not present. And what do we do to ease this pain?
As we set our goals for 2012, have we included a measure of our growth in love for others? Does our legacy include description of one who loved all and loved well?
The greatest commandment - love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.' ..and the second like it love your neighbor as yourself. (Luke 10:27)
In looking away from ourselves toward another and treating them as we'd hope to be treated - with sensitivity, kindness, honesty and love, perhaps we can help to calm the quakes of life and provide at least a stepping stone of solid ground for another. In the midst - your kindness will be remembered...it will be a part of your legacy of love on this earth. How do you wish to be remembered?
While often unnoticed, should any one of them "rock our world," we would certainly take notice. It is much like walking in the grocercy store - shopping amidst those whose worlds have been rocked by foreclosure, illness, death or other relational pain. We don't even notice unless they act in some way out of the ordinary: show tears, talk to themselves or seem to speak aloud at one who is not present. And what do we do to ease this pain?
As we set our goals for 2012, have we included a measure of our growth in love for others? Does our legacy include description of one who loved all and loved well?
The greatest commandment - love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.' ..and the second like it love your neighbor as yourself. (Luke 10:27)
In looking away from ourselves toward another and treating them as we'd hope to be treated - with sensitivity, kindness, honesty and love, perhaps we can help to calm the quakes of life and provide at least a stepping stone of solid ground for another. In the midst - your kindness will be remembered...it will be a part of your legacy of love on this earth. How do you wish to be remembered?
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