Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Today's thought from Hazelden is:
Unless our desire for human compassion is stronger than our desire to be right, to be secure or to belong, love will elude us.
-- Marsha Sinetar
Knowing we are loved is what most of us crave. For brief moments we feel it; then it eludes us once again. Why does it slip through our fingers so quickly? One way of attracting the love we desire is to be willing to love others. What we give to others comes back to us. Unfortunately, we may give judgment, impatience, or anger far more often than we give love.
We can learn to give compassion. First we need to make the decision to be compassionate. Then we need to act as if we're comfortable doing this. When we have practiced it awhile, we'll discover that giving love and receiving the love we crave is within our grasp.
I will feel loved when I give love away. I don't need to be right today. I need to be loved.
Unless our desire for human compassion is stronger than our desire to be right, to be secure or to belong, love will elude us.
-- Marsha Sinetar
Knowing we are loved is what most of us crave. For brief moments we feel it; then it eludes us once again. Why does it slip through our fingers so quickly? One way of attracting the love we desire is to be willing to love others. What we give to others comes back to us. Unfortunately, we may give judgment, impatience, or anger far more often than we give love.
We can learn to give compassion. First we need to make the decision to be compassionate. Then we need to act as if we're comfortable doing this. When we have practiced it awhile, we'll discover that giving love and receiving the love we crave is within our grasp.
I will feel loved when I give love away. I don't need to be right today. I need to be loved.
From the book:
A Woman's Spirit by Karen Casey. © 1994 by Hazelden Foundation
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