It's all about L-O-V-E

Hello All,

Yesterday when I was at work I got called out to the front desk by one of my favorite nurses. When I got there I saw her holding the hands of a resident I had come to know fairly well. The nurse looked at me and said, "Gerald feels like no one loves him. I told him that we love him but that I would get a second opinion. You are my second opinion." With his wife and son-in-law standing behind him I put my hand on his shoulder and said, "Gerald you are very important and we all love you!" Then I leaned forward and gave him a hug, causing him to burst into tears. Holding on to me, he whispered, "I love you too".

At the beginning of last year I came to the realization that religious faith was too complicated to follow. So I metaphorically dropped what I believed altogether and God brought to memory Mark 12:30-31, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no commandment greater than these.” Since then I have been learning how to just love God and love people. And as I do, I realize that I have more of an impact on people than I did trying to debate them and convert them with knowledge. I think it is so beautiful, the simplicity of this small act, but the power and influence that abides with it as well.

So my encouragement today is that you would go the extra mile and love on everyone you meet. Compliment their hair, shoes, smile...whatever. Let God use you to be a vessel in helping them know they are loved. God loves them more than we can comprehend and it is His desire for them to feel His love and hopefully turn to Him.
Blessings,


1 Corinthians 1:26-27 says, "Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong."