Loving Well
The husband
of a dear friend died this past summer.
The couple was especially close.
The gift of their chance meeting so many years ago was something they
celebrated every day. The looks, the touches, the kindnesses. The special way they spoke of each
other. The laughter and the fun. They loved each other well.
Both
believers, they had no doubt that he was going to be with the Lord. Despite the comfort of that faith and knowledge,
she is still struggling with sadness and loneliness.
But the
beautiful thing is that she has no regrets because of the selfless way they
loved each other.
Do you love those around you well?
In today’s
intense, stress-filled world, it is hard to get what we think we need. And we can get very impatient when our loved
ones don’t deliver what we want. Won’t he ever pick up his socks off the
floor? How could she be late meeting me
again? Why does he vacuum around the things on the stairs instead of moving
them? Why is she still carrying those ten pounds of extra weight? In our
preoccupation with self, it is easy to deliver such messages in a distinctly
unloving way.
Maybe God
gave us these differences so that through working them out, we could grow more
like Him. The remarkable changes that would take place in us would be visible
to everyone as we learned to love each other as God made us to love.
And in the
end, we would have no regrets. Just wonderful memories of a life well-loved.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22. New American
Standard Bible
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