Heroic Love

“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, WEB-BE

There are many kinds of love:

What is Success?

Success doesn't necessarily have to mean victory
or winning.

Success can simply be your daily efforts to reach
a desired goal or achievement.

College is a great example of this. It can take up
to four years to complete a bachelor's degree.

You wouldn't tell someone at the end of their freshman year that they weren't successful because they haven't reached senior status or the end result yet, would you? No, probably not.

You would congratulate them on their success thus
far and encourage them on their path to the end goal!

What dreams are you pursuing?

Can you take time out today to see what successes you can pull from earlier steps on your journey to encourage you to press on?

Truly congratulate yourself for getting this far.
Then keep pressing on until you reach that goal!

It's worth it!

Your dreams are worth it!

And most importantly YOU are worth it!

I'm always so happy to be in a position to share powerful success tools with you. And this one is incredible.

Have a Magnificent Monday!

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones. -Proverbs 14:30, WEB

Why compare yourself with another? If you find that they are better, wouldn’t your envy just be aroused? If you find that you are far better, wouldn't pride just fill your heart?

For what is the point in always being conscious of where we stand as compared with another? What is the point of always competing and striving to be the very best?

God has made only one person that is you, there is no other. If you would like to be the best, be the best of who you are and you will find your peace.

“Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.” - Thomas Merton

“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.” – Harold Coffin

It was St. Augustine’s argument that envy and hatred try to pierce our neighbor with a sword, when the blade cannot reach him unless it first passes through our own body.- Thomas Merton

Why do we always have to be the one to understand, to forgive, to be kind, to love? Why must we be the one to be good? Isn’t it unfair that we’re only the ones trying to treat other people in the right way?

Using our natural human instincts, we feel a certain tendency to think of fairness in this way of thinking. We’re trying so hard to be good; therefore, others should also do their part. If they don’t do their part, isn’t it only fair that we don’t do ours?

But what happens then when we follow this line of thought? Are we indeed better off by inclining to evil just because others are doing the same?

It isn’t only to the other person’s benefit that we are being called to do what is right. It is first of all for our own sake. We try to understand others because it is by doing so that we are able to lift the burden of hurt we’re carrying within us. We try to forgive because only in doing so can we be truly healed. We try to be kind because it makes our own souls beautiful. We try to love because only in loving can we find the true meaning and happiness we’ve been searching for.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.” Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.” Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. – Romans 12:19-21, WEB