Words of Love: Value

[Middle English, from Old French from feminine past participle of valoir, to be strong, be worth, from Latin valēre.]

Be Good To Each Other, Be Good to You

This is from the back of a Catholic Magazine titled "Love One Another"

While this is an ecumenical blog, To me, this expresses what Love is all about.

The Crusade for Love

1. Respect everyone – we are all created by the same Creator and Christ resides in everyone. Be sensitive to others – they are your brothers and sisters.

2. Think well of everyone – think ill of no one. Try to find something good even in the worst circumstances.

3. Always speak well of others – do not cast a slur on anyone. Repair any harm resulting from an uttered word. Do not provoke strife between people.

4. Speak to everyone in the language of love. Do not raise your voice. Do not swear. Do not vex others. Do not provoke tears. Reassure others. Show a kind heart.

5. Forgive everyone everything. Do not hold grudges. Always be the first to extend your hand as a sign of reconciliation.

6. Act always to your neighbor’s advantage. Do good things to others, as you would like them done to you. Never give a thought to what others owe you, but to what you owe them.

7. Be actively compassionate in time of suffering. Be quick to offer consolations, counsel, assistance, kindness.

8. Work conscientiously – others benefit from the fruits of your labor, just as you benefit from the labor of others.

9. Be active in your community. Be open to the poor and the sick. Share your goods. Try to see the needs of those around you.

10. Pray for everyone, even your enemies.


Peace
Keren

On a lighter note, Maybe, Perhaps...

I love this... dancing, love, ... drama and spirits even...a foreign yet somehow familiar sound, a different tongue and script I dont know anything about but I somehow understand...at least some of it.

In all sincerity, I love this, and I have no idea why this was made, why it is here, what the words say...hopefully nothing offensive to anyone....it somehow feels nice though.

and by the way, I dont mind being corrected at all! Either here on this blog or My email is listed on my profile.


Peace
Keren

Responding

When you aren't feeling the love in a major way...when you have situation after situation presented to you that frustrates you; people dont seem to understand; misjudge you; or you really just dont like what is going on..and dont know how to love it...what is your most natural reaction?

Using the scale of 1-10: (1) being the image of meditation above and (10) the youtube piece below...




Which image most represents your initial reaction to extreme frustration????? Please use any number in between to express yourself. Or please just "free style" your response, if any.

Peace and Love
Keren

Love Notes (Loretta too)

Last week was a rough week. All in all it seems God is not pulling any punches. I am learning I am not above kicking and screaming, and crying into a pillow. Life really can be hard. Hearts get broken. Incomes/livelihoods reduced or lost. People get sick and are in pain or die. I can’t be happy about these things. Why is it so hard to let go and let God? At least it is hard for me.

I had two friends lose their jobs (to one it was a blessing and no biggie, to the other very scary); I have several friends and my Him dealing with serious health issues. One a lot more serious than the rest. I have some own stuff I am wanting to work through. I do try to live in the moment, but when being beat it seems you don’t want to live in the moment, you want to look for ways to stop future pounding, at least in your imagination.

Friday was particularly brutal. So, when I got home, I picked up my love-notebook where I write and keep quotes and words I like about Love, etc., so I can reread when I need inspiration. I also keep thank you’s or nice things people have said about me which I re-read when I’m not feeling the love for whatever reason.

Anyway, I came across the following…I read this sort of thing and I just melt into Love for all of our experiences. I wish I could keep that feeling all the time, but I need frequent reminding.


God speaks to us

God speaks to each of us as he forms us in the womb; then he leads us out, beyond our remembering. The words are obscured by the transition.

“You are being sent forth by your senses. Go ahead and dare to go to the far edges of your longings and your desires. There you will form me.

You are light! Blaze and flare-up like a flame. Make great flickering shadows where I can dance.

Let every feeling happen to you: Beauty and Terror and everything in between. No feeling is the furthest out, there is always more to feel.

Don’t let yourself believe that we are separate from one another. Where we will be is the place called Life. You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your trust, I am holding you”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~ (a combination of translations tweaked by Keren for help with my own personal understanding)

Peace
Keren


Photo – “love notes” (or "why my cats will be never be models" – I can scratch that off income producing ideas):o)

my own private utopia

Sorry I’ve been away for awhile, I’ve been walking down the road of self-obsession. Its funny, when I first started walking down the path it was really exciting. Almost like the rush of a good drug leaving me wanting more. Like an addict, I couldn’t realize the effect of my condition on those around me. I was self-absorbed in my own world. In my own world there is more than enough to keep me stimulated and feeling alive… so I thought. Something happened last night, call it divine intervention, because I am still walking in a daze. I was jerked out of my own private utopia to find my real life here on earth I have a beautiful wife who is so thirsty for the deep drink of love yet is parched like a lost desert wonderer, and three loving daughters who are starving for the days when they can share daddy’s lap and just play till the evening bell tolls. It was as if someone who loves me came walking gently into my dark den of self-pity carrying a warm candle and found me with the needles of my addiction hanging from my arm. My eyes were changed; I look at the den that once gave me the reason do it again now feels like a dungeon that imprisons me from a true life.

The change is happening…the source of my wanting to live comes from not wanting to live for myself but to live my life for my family. May it be so, and may the One who leads the prisoners out keep my eyes and heart open to the Love that is right here! May I be fully present today and tomorrow!

Love's the Greatest Healer to Be Found

Oh yes!

Peace
Keren