It’s that time of the year when you can simply feel love in the air. Valentine’s Day is right around the corner.
It’s a wonderful time to celebrate “LOVE.” Whether you are single or in a relationship you can celebrate love. When you give love, you receive more love in your life. Show love to your co-workers, friends, family and even strangers. Showing love will foster a spirit of love in the atmosphere and a feeling of bliss inside you.
Say it. When you say the words “I Love You”, they should carry with them the desire to show someone that you love them, not what you simply want to feel. When you say it, make sure you really mean it and are willing to do anything for that special person.
Empathize. Put yourself in someone else’s shoes. Rather than impose your own expectations or attempt to control them, to understand how they feel, where they come from, and who they are. Realize how they could also love you back just as well.
Love unconditionally. If you cannot love another person without attaching stipulations, then it is not love at all, but deep-seated opportunism (one who makes the most of an advantage, often unmindful of others). If your interest is not in the other person as such, but rather in how that person can enhance your experience of life, then it is not unconditional. If you have no intention of improving that person’s life, or allowing that person to be themselves and accepting them as they are, and not who you want them to be, then you are not striving to love them unconditionally.
Expect nothing in return. That doesn’t mean you should allow someone to mistreat or undervalue you. It means that giving love does not guarantee receiving love. Try loving just for the sake of love. Realize that someone may have a different way of showing his or her love for you; do not expect to be loved back in exactly the same way.
Realize it can be lost. If you realize that you can lose the one you love, then you have a greater appreciation of what you have. Think how blessed you are to have someone to love. Don’t make an idol of the person you love. This will place them under undue pressure and will likely result in you losing them.
Never stop loving. Even if you have been hurt before you should not stop giving love.
During this season of love, remind yourself of the importance of love. In 1 Corinthians 13:13 God instructs us to abide in faith, hope and love, but that love is the greatest of the three.
Make it a point to go out of your way to show love! It is the greatest gift you can give away.
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