Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Love


“Love may be the best idea that every came along.”



Love is our theme for this week.  How are we loving each other?

Google “love” and many things come up on your search engine.  Things that make us chuckle but also make me sad inside.  The top looked at websites are what Google brings up as the first few links for you to click on.  Everything from quotes to a love calculator came up today.

We have a tendency to look for love in all the wrong places (quarter to anyone who can name the song without looking it up).   We sing about love, talk about love, and demand or expect love.  We seek for love in ways that sometimes are not the most Godly.

The way we love each other and ourselves affect the way that our children love us, their friends and themselves.

Love is amazing and next week we will talk about our Father’s love but this week lets focus on the love we have for each other.

One of God’s commandments to us is to love one another.  Greatest commandment is to love God and love others.   It isn’t just the best idea that came along but it is God’s idea!  He is the one who came up with it, designed it and fills our cups with it.

We however have the choice to love.   It isn’t demanded of us.  It is our choice to love or not to love.  And sometimes, even if we do love someone they don’t feel like we do.  When we love someone for their well-being and not for what we will get out of it.  We are showing them unconditional love. 

The youth a few months ago learned how to love each other better by learning each other’s love language.   Our love language is how we receive love.  Even children have a love language.  You can discover your love language at this website: http://www.5lovelanguages.com/.

There are five love languages:
1.     Words of Affirmation
2.     Acts of Service
3.     Receiving Gifts
4.     Quality Time
5.     Physical Touch

Here are some photos to help you to understand what the love languages are and how they affect us.




How will you speak your child, spouses or co workers love language this week?

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