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We walked down the hallway like we do everyday during third period. This cute student of mine prefers to work in the library where there are no distractions. As we pass the other classrooms he always tells me excitedly of his day and the funny things he and his friends have been doing. However, today he was quiet with his eyes down.
"Hey, you ok?" I asked.
He nodded.
I waited 'till we were somewhere I knew he felt safe and pressed again....
"Are you alright? I'd really like to help if something is bothering you."
He sheepishly said, "It's a love problem.".
"Ah I see..."
"I love her, but she just doesn't love me."
Jr. High love problems? Maybe so. But, can't we all relate?
My heart ached for this young man. I, like all of you my readers, have felt the strain of unobtainable love. I've had heartbreaks, let downs, and even questioned if there was any love in the whole wide world. It's easy to feel as though, unless you're the most attractive, most clever, or luckiest, love just isn't available for you.
I feel confident that this isn't just a "Jr High" problem. Look what we have to prove these lamentable feelings of loneliness. The example of Tinder; an app where you get a endless stream of photos to aid you in finding a mate. You can swipe to the right to say you're interested or swipe to the left to give 'em a "No thanks." Shallow? Petty? Maybe so. Yet, it's one of the most downloaded apps. Are we so hungry for love that we turn to these pathetic mediums to find somebody, anybody, willing to express interest in us?
Now, I understand very well that man was not made to be alone. Yet, I can't help but think that doesn't only mean we're suppose to be in sweet little, facebook official, cutest story ever told, couples. We are here to help each other home. We are here to lift one another's burdens. We are here to be like Christ, and have endless love for one another.
That's what my blog thought is today, "Where is the love?". In a book I recently read by Sheri Dew she wrote, we all have to do this journey on our own, but none of us should have to do it alone. Ultimately we are the captains of our fate. Nobody can make our decisions for us, and nobody can change us. However, it is our responsibility to be the support, and help for those all around us. How do we do that? How do we find the energy or patience? The answer is love.
1 Cor. 13:4-5 4.Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5. does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,…
Moroni 7:45 45 And charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
What a powerful, POWERFUL tool love is. I can't imagine how the world would change if we'd all try to love and serve each other. Disclaimer, I am NOT saying you need to support somebody in wrong decisions. However I am saying that you don't stop loving them, regardless of what they might be struggling with.
President Eyring wrote in conference last October of a young man in prison. His grandmother was overcome with sadness for the circumstances in which that brought. As she began to question "why" she received the answer, "I gave him to you because you could and would love him."
I have no doubt that that's how it is for each relationship that comes into our lives. I want to make each person feel like their home when they talk to me. I want to make each person feel a taste of God's love for them through my words and deeds. It's my job, and my pleasure.
Where is love the? It's burning inside you. I promise you that as you reach out and love more, you will absolutely feel it in return. 1,000 fold!
I love you! I reallly, really do.
"Hey, you ok?" I asked.
He nodded.
I waited 'till we were somewhere I knew he felt safe and pressed again....
"Are you alright? I'd really like to help if something is bothering you."
He sheepishly said, "It's a love problem.".
"Ah I see..."
"I love her, but she just doesn't love me."
Jr. High love problems? Maybe so. But, can't we all relate?
My heart ached for this young man. I, like all of you my readers, have felt the strain of unobtainable love. I've had heartbreaks, let downs, and even questioned if there was any love in the whole wide world. It's easy to feel as though, unless you're the most attractive, most clever, or luckiest, love just isn't available for you.
I feel confident that this isn't just a "Jr High" problem. Look what we have to prove these lamentable feelings of loneliness. The example of Tinder; an app where you get a endless stream of photos to aid you in finding a mate. You can swipe to the right to say you're interested or swipe to the left to give 'em a "No thanks." Shallow? Petty? Maybe so. Yet, it's one of the most downloaded apps. Are we so hungry for love that we turn to these pathetic mediums to find somebody, anybody, willing to express interest in us?
Now, I understand very well that man was not made to be alone. Yet, I can't help but think that doesn't only mean we're suppose to be in sweet little, facebook official, cutest story ever told, couples. We are here to help each other home. We are here to lift one another's burdens. We are here to be like Christ, and have endless love for one another.
That's what my blog thought is today, "Where is the love?". In a book I recently read by Sheri Dew she wrote, we all have to do this journey on our own, but none of us should have to do it alone. Ultimately we are the captains of our fate. Nobody can make our decisions for us, and nobody can change us. However, it is our responsibility to be the support, and help for those all around us. How do we do that? How do we find the energy or patience? The answer is love.
1 Cor. 13:4-5 4.Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5. does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,…
Moroni 7:45 45 And charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
What a powerful, POWERFUL tool love is. I can't imagine how the world would change if we'd all try to love and serve each other. Disclaimer, I am NOT saying you need to support somebody in wrong decisions. However I am saying that you don't stop loving them, regardless of what they might be struggling with.
President Eyring wrote in conference last October of a young man in prison. His grandmother was overcome with sadness for the circumstances in which that brought. As she began to question "why" she received the answer, "I gave him to you because you could and would love him."
I have no doubt that that's how it is for each relationship that comes into our lives. I want to make each person feel like their home when they talk to me. I want to make each person feel a taste of God's love for them through my words and deeds. It's my job, and my pleasure.
Where is love the? It's burning inside you. I promise you that as you reach out and love more, you will absolutely feel it in return. 1,000 fold!
I love you! I reallly, really do.
