When One Loves....

I couldn't think of a picture that fit my post and so here is a blast from the past.
Goblin Valley, 2019.  Me and my boys.

Today at D.I. I saw the book The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin.  Yes, I passed it up.  I couldn't think of a justifiable reason to buy another copy!  So, when I opened this to write a blog and went a little blank, I decided to open the book to a random page and see what I found.  I ended up reading the section of the July chapter that is about spending out.  This meant to her that instead of saving things or ideas for later, she would use them and enjoy them now, trusting that there would be more things or ideas later.

Gretchen doesn't stop there.  She feels the most important things about "spending out" is to do things without keeping score.  She is not talking about when you play sports or a game.  She is talking about not doing things for people with the idea that you will get something back.  She quotes Saint Therese of Lisieux who wrote "When one loves, one does not calculate."  It is so easy for me to fall into the trap of doing things with the hope that someone will respond!  It is better if I can do things for the love of doing them, or for the love of the people I choose to do them for.  That is the way to  go!