I am always reading books to stretch my mind and grow as a person.
As I have embraced and entered the 40’s and fabulous stage in my life I have learned, mostly over the last few years, to truly love at a deeper level.
No longer is just love about a feeling, an emotion, a sight. Love is a verb, an action word. What are my actions when life happens?
In Sassy, Single & Satisfied, Michelle McKinney Hammond writes:
The purest delight of love is pouring out all that you have on one who recognizes the worth of your offerings, but that might not always be the case. Give anyway.
When you give love to someone, they will never be the same because of you. Love is deep, profound, and life-changing. Not everyone has the capacity or the ability to respond to it adeptly, yet it never fails to affect all that it touches. For some, the effect of love is more immediate. For others, it reshapes their hearts. You will never know the full effect of your love in the lives of some.
Years later, the recipient will pause to remember a word you spoke, a gesture you offered and ponder its effect on their lives. Love is everlasting.
Such is the cycle of true love, to give and give again. It is in the giving that you get what you are looking for.
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That doesn’t sound very happily ever after, to give and give again; but, love is a verb, an action word.
The invisible cord that keeps hearts connected.
