Love, Period!
I am not religious, nor do I belong to any church. However, I believe in God. I periodically attend Kensington Church, but I do not ‘belong’, so to speak.
My Faith
My faith began last year when I became really pissed off with God, then surrendered. I didn’t like where I was at, and I was tired of relying on others to help. Well, ideology was more like it.
I began by reading devotional books and then ‘looking up the scriptures’ in the Bible. I received this Life Application Bible from a friend in 2000, so I dug it out of the closet. At first, it was a reference to me, teaching me to understand what I just read in my devotional books.
Stumbling on to 1 John, I had no idea what these pages were going to present. LOVE, love, just love, period. It was so overwhelming at first, I had to close my Bible and walk away. 1 John 1:3 God is Love, not Love is God. My heart was swelling out of my chest. LOVE!
There was so much learning about love in one chapter. ‘Everyone believes that love is important, but love is usually thought of like a feeling. In reality, love is a choice and an action’. 1 John 4:7 (The description of the scripture.) God is a source of our love. This goes on
The final question of this explanation is how well do you show love for God in the choices that you make and the actions that you take?
Love
The love must begin with YOU. That is true self-care. That is self-love – unperfected and real.
Then your life will change. You will see life so differently.
Your business will grow; you will have clarity and confidence. You will experience less stress and overwhelm, and your success will be real. You will strengthen your relationships and your clients will happy, referring you so others can seek you out. Your boundaries will be clearer and stronger. Ease, joy, and peace will become your life and business. Who wouldn’t want this?
Your personal relationships will shift, and fluidity, joy, faith, and hope will appear with ease.
To receive all of this you must first fall in Love with YOU. I mean really do it. No talking, boasting or defending because you will not need to. No chasing people. A whole new life of LOVE!
Love, Period!
Peace,
Kim
So true about the “outward” appearance of self love being confused with internal love. We live in a society that rewards outward appearances of charity, devotion, and Godliness. I fall into this trap as well– it’s hard to escape even though it’s a leaky bucket. “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.’ — Matthew 6:5-6
Love this Thea. I do not pray or meditate to show others. This is very private! Sacred.
Love them like he as always loved you was a huge lesson to learn on my journey with God, and the be love, project love and love. Love is so powerful and has so many forms that we can learn and become so much better from.
Yes we can Kate. Love, PERIOD!
Self love and acceptance is so important to progress and be content in life. It’s a tough one though.
Yes Lynn, it can be tough, this is where gratitude and gentleness comes in
Such a great post! Love and faith are always the answers!
Yes they are!
‘Love is a choice and an action’ .. rather than a feeling …. that’s a really interesting one and actually so true isn’t it! I need to practice self love a lot better, it’s something I’ve become aware of many times in the last year.
You are off to an amazing start of this practice…self-awareness!
Thank you for sharing your journey in returning home to your highest Truth. Indeed, Love is a universal principle and the healing, harmonizing energy of the universe. Many blessings ????
Thank you, Evelyn!
Self love and acceptance really are the key to everything. Sometimes I’m right there with it and sometimes struggle. It definitely makes things a lot easier when I’m in a good, self love place.
Yes it does, Paul.
i’m the same way. i believe in God, not religious but feel like i need to start going to church more but haven’t. feeling love and acceptance not just from others but yourself and God is important to feel at ease
Yes, that connection with God!
Love is all you need! Seriously, it truly is all that we need but as opposed to what many think it is not the love of someone else that we need but the love of ourselves. I love this post, Kim.
Thank you Elise! So true, the love of ourselves.
Kim this is an amazing post. I am now just figuring out that self-love is CRUCIAL to be happy. Being empathic meant that I always put everyone else’s feelings first and never cared about my happiness. I always was a people pleaser and that made them happy but not me. Finally, at this crucial turning point in my life, I have made the decision to go all in on me. Love truly is the answer no matter how silly it sounds. It is not easy to love yourself if you have always told yourself you are not good enough, but just as we love ourselves, God loves us and that is enough. Thank you for this awesome post!
Julie, you will just explode to the next level of your journey. Your clients, friends, partner will all benefit from this, however, you will benefit the most!
Nice post and a good reminder to people that love starts with loving ourselves.
Always!