Do You Know That You Are Loved?

“Today, many people are angry and hurt not because they are not loved, but because they don’t really know how much they are loved.” – Wisdom Nwani

You may not know it, but you are loved. You may think you’re alone, but you are not. You may feel like you’re worthless, but you are priceless in someone’s eyes.

Why can’t we see it? Why can’t we see what we so badly need?

Why do we feel as though we’re being judged instead of being cared for? And why do we think we’re being condemned when we’re actually being saved?

Love saves. Love heals. Love pursues us, but we so often run away.

Are you running away? Are you looking for love in all the wrong places? Are you willing to wait and stand still to see the one who’s been looking for you all along?

“Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave.” – Pope Benedict XVI, God is Love

“The cross is like a touch of eternal love upon the most painful wounds of man’s earthly existence…” – St. John Paul II

If We Could Listen With Our Hearts

May we always try to listen not only with our ears, but with our hearts. Wisdom Nwani

Much of the really important words often remain unsaid. Out of the many things we say, we reserve what we really mean within our own hearts. I guess this is one reason why we often fail to understand each other.

If only we had the honesty and the courage to say how much we really love another. If we only had that childlike simplicity to voice out what we really need or how we really feel. Maybe then we’d get to know each other better, deeper. Maybe we could finally give each other what we really need – whether it be space, apology, encouragement or affection.

Today, let’s try to listen, really listen to what other people are saying. Because somewhere beneath the anger, somewhere beneath the pride and the noise and the laughter, there is that part that longs to be really heard.

If I knew you and you knew me,
If both of us could clearly see,
And with an inner sight divine
The meaning of your heart and mine,
I’m sure that we would differ less
And clasp our hands in friendliness;
Our thoughts would pleasantly agree
If I knew you, and you knew me.
-Nixon Waterman

The Wise One: Pride Is Never Worth Paying For

The Wise One: Pride Is Never Worth Paying For: When we are too proud to admit our mistakes, we often lose something that is utterly more important than our useless pride . –Wisdom Nwani...

Pride Is Never Worth Paying For

When we are too proud to admit our mistakes, we often lose something that is utterly more important than our useless pride

. –Wisdom Nwani

Let not pride make you pay an utterly high cost. Let it not take you away from those you love. Let it not stop you from reaching out and admitting your mistakes. Let it not rob you of many years of friendship for a short moment of misunderstanding.

A single word can often bring back what was lost. A simple gesture of apology can often heal a hurting heart.

What is pride but being alone in our own self-made prison, beyond the reach of those we love? What is pride but an illusion of victory, where in truth we suffer the defeat of not having what we truly desire?

“Humility makes men angels, and pride makes angels devils.” – St. Augustine