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The love you withhold is the pain that you carry

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The love you withhold is the pain that you carry…?
What does this mean to you? How would you describe this statement?

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Don H

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor. I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother
Don

Here are some great Tamil verses from a…

Here are some great Tamil verses from a daily calendar, translated into English:

1. Some dream of victory, some stay awake working.

2. Persistance is where success resides.

3. A day without a smile goes wasted.

4. A fool’s dream is a wingless bird.

5. Man thinks. God does.

6. Memory is the food of imagination.

7. Patience is the jewel of the wise.

8. Self respect is the fruit of discipline.

9. To vanquish your enemies make them your friends.

10. Machines will occupy the house of a man who works like a machine.

11. On the path of victory, work always happens.

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