LOVE AND LOVE Reflections

If you could get rid of all your fears – death, rejection, losing, and criticism, how different would your life be? If you could be free to attain all your dreams, goals and aspirations, how would the world mean to you? We are often deceived about the powerful and destructive force of fear because it does not produce violent outbursts like anger.  But fear, which breeds into various negative thought patterns and emotions – anxiety, worry, pessimism, doubts, timidity, inferiority, depression, social shyness etc. is just as powerful and destructive if not to others, to the fearful person, like anger.  Fear is the belief that you are powerless and that you can’t do anything. Someone rightly defined FEAR as “False Evidence/Expectation Appearing Real”. Causes of Fear Experts assert that one major factor of fear is one’s temperament traits. Almost all temperaments have tendency towards fear – Melancholics and Phlegmatics are more fear-prone. Parenting and upbringing is another f

Love though threatened, keeps pursuing; though challenged, keeps moving; though mistreated, remains gentle. Many a time and oft we show love, but our love goes unnoticed, unappreciated and unreciprocated, and it leaves us thinking, “Should we continue to show love?” But if it is really love, it doesn’t waver when it is not received the way we wished it to be.  If love can be told to quit loving and it does, then it is not really love. Love forbears! Love bears all things . . . 1Cor.13:7. It means tolerating, putting up graciously and patiently with someone’s weakness when it encounters the area of your strength. This is the nature of love which makes it possible to withstand all the wrongs of others, behave well towards the unseemingly behaviour of others, show kindness continuously to the ungrateful person, think about the best interest of enemies, and forgive the wrongs of people and not count it against them. Someone rightly said, "Relationships without forbearance