Be Love

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In some podcasts by Jody Moore she talks about trying to be love.  Can you imagine how surprised you would be if you asked your child what they wanted to be when they grew up and they said, "love!" 

The good thing about wanting to be love, is that you can be love (or try hard to be love) while doing your work -- no matter what your work is.  If someone yells at you, and you start to get angry, you can stop and think, "Wait!  I'm being love.  What would love do?"  If we look at someone and start to feel judgmental we can ask ourselves how love would show up in that situation.  When we get down on ourselves we could remember that being love includes loving ourselves -- one of the people that God created.

1 John 1:8 says that "God is Love."  Verse 11 says "...if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another."  So if we are trying to be love, we are trying to be like God.  We are trying to find God in us, and share it with those around us.  We are giving grace.  The world would be a kinder, gentler place if all people wanted more than anything to "be love" when they grow up, and then they spent their life practicing!