A Love Happy Society

Today I was thinking about how many times a day we say "I love you" or any form of those three words. There are obvious people in my life whom I love: friends, siblings, parents, nieces & nephews ect. But how often do we say these words and not understand that to love is a verb....something that requires effort and action.

I am not a downer, or unbeliever in the power of the word love, but I just wonder if when we use it we actually know what we are agreeing to. In church this past week we discussed how to love somebody is to see their eternal potential and help them achieve it. Are we really all striving to do this for every person that we utter these words to? Don't get me wrong, I want to be able to tell as many people possible that I love them, but I also want to be able to show it in my actions. I was taught once that words without action behind them have as good of a chance standing strong as a sandcastle in high tide. I mean lets be honest, who wants to see their hours of intense labor wash away.

Saying I love you is in a sense making a promise. Under promise over deliver is a motto that i've heard repeated many times. Why not just promise and deliver? Use the words love on a daily basis as often as possible....but back up those vulnerable words with action. I believe that keeping in mind that we have to love ourselves before we love others can help us understand that we truly have to act upon the verb love.

This is a small example of some of the people that I love, and I hope that my actions to them speak louder then anytime I verbally tell them how I feel.

Future possibilites disguised as a downward spiral...

Recently a good friend of mine opened up my eyes to blogging through sharing his newly found passion with me...not only did i become totally obsessed, seeing if he had posted anything new, but I realized that maybe blogging was something that would be good for me too. Heck, maybe it just isn't something for old married people. After getting my roommates support, I knew it was time to delve into the blogging world...never thought I'd be one of these kids...welp here I am!

I always said that some day I would write a book...i already have a title and my chapters laid out...maybe this will be a good way for me to get used to having others read my ideas. I really want my first chapter to be entitled: "sometimes when there is a fork in the road, you have to take a knife and go down the middle." To be honest I feel as though life has been a lot like this lately. There are possibilities and open roads, but sometimes I am disappointed in myself and in others when the tough, not as clear path is totally disregarded. We might play around with the idea of taking this path for a couple of days...and then end up right back in our Comfort zones. I believe that the road that you have to work for will be the one that brings the greatest reward. Taking risks is what it is cracked up to be. With the right amount of knowledge, right amount of faith, and the actual guts to do something out of your ordinary, tremendous results will ensue.

For me, my new goal is to get out of the comfort zone and explore new heights (blogging for instance). Try things that aren't always as easy...try things even when you don't know how others will respond. The satisfaction from trying will be greater then the disappointment from failing.