True Love in Action 💕

📸: Gran Canaria, 2022

Someone ever told me that Love is the energy of life.
I think before we can attempt to love people who hard to love, we need to understand the importance of love and to know what love is and is not. 
Love is the energy of life, and it is what motives people to get up each day and keep going.
What do you think, loves? 😊
I am a Christian and I have a faith in my God. I would love to share my bible understanding little bit, that I read this morning from Matthew 25:40 — “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
My point well — We often want God on visit us or to do some miraculous work to prove that He cares for us, but we can see from God’s Word and this bible verse that anytime we show love to another person, God is here. 
This bible story (I don’t write it here; just the fav bible verse on the story), is impactful because it teaches us that God considers the way we treat others to be the way we treat Him.  
When we decide to love people even who are hard to love, feelings of love may rarely be present. 
Love sees the best in people, and it is willing to pray about and be patient with the aspects of people that aren’t so good. Love always believes the best about others. 
Love is not selfish or self-centered, and it doesn’t have to be right. As a matter of fact, love sacrifices it’s right to be right. It is not impatient or harsh. It does not gossip, criticize, or spread rumors about the faults and sins of others, but it covers them and prays for their forgiveness and change of heart. 
I learn from my mom lots about loving someone; if you want to love people, you will need to take time to listen to them and find out what they want and need. Do they need encouragement? Do they need financial help? Do they need to be included in family activities because they are single, widowed or lonely? 
We usually assume that people need and like what we do, but we are different and everyone feels loved in different ways. 
Gary Chapman in his book writes about five way people give and receive love: 
1. Quality time 
2. Acts of service 
3. Words of affirmation 
4. Gifts 
5. Physical touch 
You should read about it and try to learn and understand how to understand what people need regarding the situation and your relationship. Some people have more than one love language, as I do, but most people usually have a dominant one. 

If you really listen to people, they will tell you what they want and need. They do this without realizing they are doing it. They are not hunting, but as you get to know them you will notice what they like, and you should be ready to love them in ways that they need to be loved. 

My partner loves 2 sports and I don’t know or care much about them. In fact, sports would be the last topic I would love to have a long conversation about and recently He and I had time to enjoy our food and I spent our time together asking him his fav sports questions and letting him go on and on about the various qualities of different things about it. 
Loving people means doing what is for their good, not necessarily yours. Love is the greatest thing in the world. It has the power to change lives, and it defeats the devil in his works on the earth. Nothing gives people more joy than feeling loved. We can tell someone we love them, and it is meaningful, but when they feel loved, it is much, much better. People will always remember how you made them feel when they were with you, even if they forget what you said and did. 
Make people feel good about themselves and you will have many loves back. 💕

Happy Sunday 😊
Love, 
Ms. Elista 



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