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Reflections February 2016

Life Is for Living

Love, Everybody Needs It

By Neil Wyrick

Deposit love in your bank of life and you will be rich beyond compare.

I've always been fascinated by having something so warm as love being celebrated in a month as cold as February.

That this magic emotion can make the beautiful even more so is one of life's greatest gifts.

"Have a heart" and "Give a heart" are two special ideas that can and have changed the world.

What is love? When loves speaks there is no deafness in the heart. Once you fall really in love you never want to lose it. Love does not have to be understood. It must only be accepted with great joy.

We all remember the first time we fell in love. We were teenagers and it hit us like a ton of bricks. We had no way of knowing whether we would find a love that would last a lifetime. Some have. Some haven't. Here are some observations I’ve made that make this magic continue.

Be more concerned with the happiness of the person you love than you are with your own.

Give simple praise on a regular basis.

Respect that person you love with excessive kindness. Ah yes, It is an old-fashioned emotion and worth its weight in gold.

Each time we practice love, at least a dozen stars or more double their brightness. I cannot prove this is a scientific statement but I like to think that it is true.

Love is a garden with flowers that grow nowhere else. When you give love you still keep it only now it is better than it ever was before.

Love is not blind, rather it has 20/20 vision. True love whether it is for an individual or group of people is a reality that shines its light on what is good and shouts with joy when something bad expires.

Do you want to learn how to live? Then learn how to love.

How much heavier is a heart that is filled with love? Or is it lighter? It is one or the other but once the heart is filled with true love it is never the same.

Why are you here? Why were you created? I hope your answer is "To love."

Those who wish to love always find people and things to love. Those who do not, live blind and twisted lives.

I cannot remember the first time I loved. Fortunately, I have not found a first time to hate.

That is a place I do not want to live. All those who live there cannot, will not love. It is a place of perpetual frown.

If you have lived briefly or longer in the season of hate you are so very blessed when the spring of love comes to call.

Deposit love in your bank of life and you will be rich beyond compare.

Judge less. Love more.

I signed up for a lifetime of loving rather than harboring hate. I have never been sorry for where I put my signature on that very special day.

Love gives balance like nothing else in life. Don't forget it.

 

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