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Well… I have to honestly say that I do not really know what ‘love’ is! I have recently read that love is not an emotion. It is a decision. Okay. I can be kind. I can be thoughtful. I can even be compassionate. But, I also can be angry, selfish, thoughtless and even cruel. I have had to be painfully honest with myself as I have reviewed the numerous relationships that have dissolved, sometimes naturally and sometimes painfully. What made them different than the ones that have thrived and flourished? I have had to look deeper within myself as I my work requires extreme honesty in order to be able to serve with integrity. More importantly, I have a solemn commitment to my own spiritual growth. So I asked for help. “Holy Spirit, guide me to Truth and help me to be the essence of Love that You are within me!”

The answer reveals itself each moment. I continue to pray. The old anger and frustration are such habits. But then… the repairman who doesn’t do the repair properly and requires numerous phone calls to correct — I see his innocence and I get quiet and calm. The truth about past broken relationships are revealed to me and I see my part more clearly. Reacting to misperceptions, I have not seen the purity and the holiness in each one. I see someone who is not behaving the way I want them to. I have judged them mercilessly.

The Course continues, “Like you, my faith and my belief are centered on what I treasure. The difference is that I love only what God loves with me, and because of this I treasure you beyond the value that you set on yourself, even unto the worth that God has placed upon you. I love all that He created…” >(T-13.X.13:1-3)