Anything in your life will always benefit when you give it a little love. Some people call this appreciation. Others relate to it as embracing all that come, warts and all. Have you ever found the moment to rescue a stricken bird on the roadway? Well, so what if it pecked your hand and drew blood. You blessed it anyway and sent it on its way. Even with that hurt, you offered more love and bear no ill will. “But what’s in it for me,” you ask. This constant giving of love for everything will very definitely be returned to you. One only has to quiet the mind to feel where all the love is in your life.
Giving the gift of love.
Give Love In Place Of Hate
Giving love does not mean you actually go out there and hug someone or something. It might not be possible. Here’s a little story of a true event. Think of someone in a wheel chair who has already suffered all the indignities of being disowned and put down despite putting his life on the line for many years to protect innocent lives. Would you feel that this person would want to live on to live on amidst such sheer unjustified hatred? How would it have been for you if you were that person? But all he wanted was for a little respect back. This respect happens to be love. But popular media has it that this man was unworthy. What would you do? Do you even have the right to extend that hatred or would you offer love?
Imagine what it must be like for prisoners being sentenced to solitary confinement, devoid of all sense of freedom, sight, warmth and dignity. All they have are their minds which are regularly tortured to with voices of hate. The love feels like it has been torn away. What emotions must replace that emptiness? I shudder to think what punishment with more pain does.
Many times we are all put into situations that make us think of following the crowd. When that happens, hatred or love becomes accentuated rightly or wrongly. Hatred is so easily spread and the victim of such negativity remains separated and quite unable to live it down in everyone’s eyes. Similarly, but opposite the hero in society’s eyes never appears to be able to do any wrong. It is here that I do strongly advocate giving your love. Not just a little, but a whole lot. This is the reason why.
Giving Love Heals
There’s something about the power of love. It is an extremely powerful energy that heals. It corrects the wrongs that have come before it. Life wants to go forward and grow. That is the natural order of this expanding universe. As I’ve mentioned before love is what you make of it. It can be for almost any reason but it’s most significant effect is to heal everything that comes before.
Not too long ago ‘Apartheid’ brought tremendous grief to black people in South Africa. But through the tremendous effort of love of peace for the people one man’s ideal was supported by many. Although still imperfect, there is that magnificent and deliberate growth for South Africans today.
If you can still remember the shameful slaughtering of whales, there is this group of Grey Whales off Mexico that used to fight whalers of many years ago. But today, that distrust and fear has become an amazing story of trust as these whales come to visit and interact with whale tourist watchers. Now, many of these whales were still alive when they were still being hunted and were very distrustful of humans. Yet, they have come to love the touch and hugs that people now offer them.
Love In His Heart
That is all the man in the wheelchair asked for. He gave love to the victims of war yet that was against the policy makers of those days. But that was not in his heart. All he wants in return was a little love. You see, he lives in abject loneliness. That feeling of love ripped from us can and does separate us from a connection we all must have to be successful in life.
However, all it takes for love to shine through is to simply bring a dog or pet, a child saying hello or simply sitting with him with a hot bowl of soup. Through all the emotional and physical agony, he will smile at you and offer a wonderful and amazingly intelligent conversation. Obviously, his broken body is not a broken spirit still longing for more love from the world he still loves.
But you see, that was not too many years ago. Love does give courage to go on and claiming one’s rightful place. All it takes is a little love from a single person. A few loving words of encouragement and even a patient on the death bed will recover to confound the medical doctors. The world calls these events miracles. The will to live with the will of love is all healing and is still the most powerful force ever known.
Miracles do not end there. Miracles also extend to all manner of things we all love. There is the love of living well. You will find many who have gone to their school of choice and graduated under miraculous situations. You might wonder at the guy in such terrible financial situations who has recovered to live the life of luxury in a fully paid mansion. Business newbies have been known to become millionaires in their first year.
He or she may have had mentors. Ask them and they might tell you they knew things will come out in their favour and they might also tell you it’s because of a love that drove their extreme determination into that dream. It is their love of their dreams that got them there.
