The story...
They gave me the choice of surgery on both bunions at once or one at a time. Doing both would've required navigating via wheel chair. Friends encouraged me to do both so that I might more fully experience the dilemmas of handicapped people within the workplace - they wanted me to voice my concerns and bring attention to the problems and possible solutions. "You could help other people and open our workplace up to those with handicaps."
I did one at a time and hobbled around on crutches twice. I didn't experience the wheel chair barriers; yet, I did need help from others. I asked for help. The help felt like love - I was so... thankful and seemed to have become a more "whole" person.
Might I've best learned to love by allowing others to love me? What necessary ingredients were missing? Must I've believed that true love existed? Did I witness love being given and received? Did I mistrust those who tried to offer love? Did I eschew clunky offers of of love from imperfect people? I now know I'm lovable - I've received love from The Source.
The only church in town will be characterized as loving God; themselves; and others too - He, me and we. It won't be an imagined type of love worked up through self effort - it'll be a gift from God.
Just for today...
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art." Francis de Sales
"He has told you, mortal one, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?" Malachi 6:8 (NASB)
"He loved me; Now I see - I love me; Honestly love thee." Am I a Poet?
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