Love Tank!

Hi fans, it been a while… I’ve so missed you all and I have missed blogging as well. Was speaking with a fan few weeks back who really expressed her love for the blog saying she can’t wait for a new post.  That really got to me. A big thank you to all those who showed concern one way or the other, just to know if all was well with me….I really appreciate. Feels so good to be loved! You guys really inspire me to write…I love you all.

So I will be discussing about ‘’LOVE’’. These four later word is so powerful. Love is the most important word in the English language and the most confusing. Both secular and religious thinkers agree that love plays a central role in life.  We are told that ‘’love is a many splendored thing and that it makes the world go round’’.
Thousands of movies, songs and books are peppered with the word.

Psychologists have concluded that the need to feel love is a primary human emotional need. For love we can climb mountains, travel far distance, and endure untold hardships. Without love,  mountains become un-climbable and hardship our plight in life.  The Christian Apostle to the Gentiles, Paul, exalted love when he indicated that human accomplishments that are not motivated by love are, in the end, empty. He concluded that only three characters will remain: ‘’Faith, Hope and Love. But the greatest of these is ‘’love’’.  

Most times we confuse the word love in a thousand ways.  We love nature: flowers, weathers etc. we love animals: pets etc. we love people: mother, father, siblings etc. we also use the word love to explain behavior. The purpose of love is not to eliminate all confusion surrounding it, but to focus on that kind of love that is essential to our emotional health. I like the metaphor that says ‘’Inside every child is an emotional tank waiting to be filled with love’’.  Much of the misbehavior of children and adults is motivated by the cravings of an empty ‘’love tank’’.

What good is the house, the cars, the place at the beach, or any of the rest of it if your spouse doesn’t love you? Material things are no replacement for human emotional love.  Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments. At the heart of mankind’s existence is the desire to be loved by another.

Some says love don’t exist, probably due to their past relationships or life events. Yes I myself have been hurt. Hurt by loved ones, friends and even family members. But never hold on to the past…I hear someone say ‘’yea right Juliet! Easier said than done… yes I know it’s not easy. I have been there; it was never easy at first. I just had to work on myself, put myself together and move on. Rather than dwelling in my past. Once we dwell in our past, we give the devil the chance to creep into our hearts and sow seeds of discord. Thereby we begin to walk in hatred than love.  When the tank is low… we have no feelings towards people around us but simply experience emptiness and pains. Could it be that deep inside hurting people exists an invisible  ‘’emotional love tank’’ with its gauge on empty? Could the misbehavior, harsh words, withdrawal and critical spirit occur because of that empty tank? With a full tank people will be able to create an emotional climate where it is possible to discuss differences and resolve conflicts.  Could that tank be the key that makes relationships work?

When you walk in love, you express the traits of God in you.  Love gives hope to the hopeless, it can brighten a day and it brings out the best in one. I can go on and on…

Love is friendship that has caught fire; it is quiet, Love settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weakness. When love is your guiding light, you can break through barriers to be of loving service to the world.

You don’t need a thousand people to like you; you need just one or two people to love you and that relationship can change your life forever. Love is when you take away the feelings and passion in a relationship and find out you still care for the person. ‘’When an action doesn’t come naturally to you it is a greater expression of love’’.

It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone an hour to like someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone you love.

     ‘’if you claim to have feelings that you don’t have, that is hypocritical… but if you express an act of love that is designed for the other person’s benefit or pleasure, it is simply a choice’’.  

Love comes to those who still hope although they have been disappointed…

 To those who still believe although they have been betrayed…

To those who still need to love although they have been hurt before ….

To those who have the courage and faith to build trust again…  Go show someone love today!

XOXO…