Without love it’s nothing
A personal lesson I have been learning of late, is the “without love it’s nothing” concept. It’s a phrase that we have heard all of our lives, especially in The Family, and something that we try live by as much as possible. With the launch of the AIP and the many other things that are happening that I am responsible for in our Family Home, I think I made the mistake of letting busyness rule my life instead of letting love be the guiding rule. It’s something that I have to constantly keep in check. Here’s the verse that puts it all in one thought:
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great command-ment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matt 22:37–40).
And while you are at it, here is something I read today that really drove the point home:
Pure, sacrificial love is as a searing white light in the spirit world; it engulfs the darkness, and darkness can’t stand before it. Therefore any loving deed, any sacrifice for love, any unselfish act—sharing of your abundance with someone in need, going out to win the lost, etc.—is transformed in the spirit world into a searing white light that sends the Devil running away. And do you know what else? Every act of love or deed of kindness that is transformed into that powerful beam of white light goes on forever, ad infinitum!