An outward manifestation of love is compassion. Jesus was continually being motivated by compassion- his healings and feedings. As he told one of the teachers of the law in Mark 12:28-34 " 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.31The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'".How do I show my love to myself? Usually I give myself little treat., Maybe, I will stop at a cafe for a cup of coffee which in this country usually come with an excellent little chocolate, or perhaps I will go for an extra long work in the forest or do a crossword puzzle. I know how to treat myself. I don't think God wants me to buy him a cup of coffee as Buddhists do but I could find a lonely person to enjoy coffee with. As strangers in a strange country and without friends people have welcomed us into their homes. The quiet nudge to make a telephone call or send an email, to take a meal, to share a meal. Done because they are needed and with a willing friendly heart. I have been the recipient of all. Now I need to go and do likewise. Worship God, yes, but be motivated by love in all I do.
"The problem of the soul is how to live noble in an animal environment; how to persuade and train the tongue and the senses to behave in agreement with the insights of the soul". From God in Search of Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel.
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