POWER OF LOVE
So, you are wondering why I am doing Power of Love, it has nothing to do with Chronic Pain, Cancer and Disabilities.
Let me explain.
Our Mission Statement is: “Support through the Power of Love” (John13:34)
Joh 13:34 I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.
A person in love feels stronger, faster, better overall, Love is the Power of telepathy the ability to fully understand someone without having to talk to simply understand or relate. Love is a force field that offers you protection from yourself as well as the outside world even protecting your heart. Force fields can’t be perfect so if someone brakes through and you became injured, love has the power to heal. Love can heal your wounds and nurse you back to health it offers you hope, new beginnings and a confidence in yourself granting you the “I don’t give a damn what you think” attitude. Love is the ultimate superpower so invaluable and equip with telepathy, protection / force field, healing and the cockiness and confidence of a superhero.
Most of the time people joke and say “Stop reading my mind “or “ Get out of my head” but being able to tell what the other person is thinking or communicating without talking is very possible, some are just better at it than others. With love you get to submerge yourself into another person fully and completely, you wish for nothing more than to spend all your time together and know all there is to know about your significant other. You may not be able to tell what you’re significant other is thinking 300 miles away but certainly when you’re right next to each other you can whether through body language, facial expressions or just a deep passionate connection telepathy between significant others or anyone in love is possible. The force field of love is based off trust and communication, although there is no force field in the literal sense it does still exist. This force field allows you protection. Protecting your heart, emotions and gives you strength, gives you a security to know that it...
What is Love?
Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection to pleasure. It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment.
Love is involuntary. ... The ancient Greeks called love “The Madness of the Gods.” Modern psychologists define it as it the strong desire for emotional union with another person. But what, actually, is love. It means so many different things to different people.
What is Love – Seasoned Feelings?
Ask any teenager or senior citizen, “What is love?” and their answers reflect a similar influence. Love involves feelings -- romanticized by music, literature, and media. We all yearn to recreate that intimacy based on what seems so ideal. Our deepest longings shape what defines love -- fervor (passionate), flawless (perfect), and fulfillment (joy).
When we express love, we develop a strong emotional attachment, anticipating our love to be returned. What do I receive out of the relationship? What’s my level of contentment? Our feelings focus upon discovering that one individual who satisfies all our heart’s desires. Sadly, what nourished and warmed our love for one season often withers and grows cold. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”
What is Love – The Cost of Giving?
What is love if not costly? Real love demands sacrifice that can’t be found in self-centeredness. You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. (John 3:16)
Sacrificial love requires that we give what we value most: our hearts, minds, souls, and strength. Real love does not always follow our natural inclinations; it is not an impulse from feelings. When anybody promises me something, I do not take that very seriously. The reason for this is that talk is cheap; actions show more of a person than cheep talk. So, its better not to promise anyone anything but rather show the person your true feelings with your actions.
Love can only be understood from the actions it prompts. When we bear with the failings and weaknesses of others, divine love reveals itself (Ephesians 4:2). At all costs, this love compels us to give so that we alleviate the suffering of others. Instead of seeking to fulfill our emotional and physical needs (receiving), we humbly give of ourselves (1 Peter 3:8–9).
What is Love – God’s Nature?
In a response to, “What is Love?” It is erroneous to say “Love is God.” God created love, not the reverse. He deliberately chose to express His love to us -- revealing the very nature of God Himself.
God Is Sacrificial – God initiated an eternal love relationship with us before we loved Him (1 John 4:10).
God Is Merciful – God extended the wealth of His kindness even when we were undeserving of His love (Ephesians 2:4-5).
God Is Faithful – Even in the most extreme circumstances, God’s love for us remains secure (Romans 8:35, 38-39).
God did not need to create the universe. He made that choice as an expression of His ultimate love for us. Then God created us a certain way -- to experience all that perfect love was meant to be (Song of Songs 4:9-10; 8:6; 1 John 4:7-12).
“ . . . May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is” (Ephesians 3:17-18).
In the Gospel of John, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." (NIV, John 13:34–35; cf. John 15:17). Jesus also taught "Love your enemies." (Matthew 5:44, Luke 6:27).
"Love is patient; love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres."
Unconditional Love:
Unconditional love is known as affection without any limitations or love without conditions. This term is sometimes associated with other terms such as true altruism or complete love. Each area of expertise has a certain way of describing unconditional love, but most will agree that it is that type of love which has no bounds and is unchanging. It is a concept comparable to true love, a term which is more frequently used to describe love between lovers. By contrast, unconditional love is frequently used to describe love between family members, comrades in arms and between others in highly committed relationships. An example of this is a parent's love for their child; no matter a test score, a life changing decision, an argument, or a strong belief, the amount of love that remains between this bond is seen as unchanging and unconditional.
In Christianity, the term "unconditional love" may be used to indicate God's love for a person irrespective of that person's love for God. The term is not explicitly used in the Bible and advocates for God's conditional or unconditional love, using different passages or interpretations to support their point of view, are both encountered. The civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was quoted as saying "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality".
The main use of unconditional love in Christianity is the assertion "That God so loved the world..." In other words, God loves the world enough to suffer for us without preconditions. There is then that post condition of actually accepting that Grace. The two together are not fundamentally different from psychology's unconditional positive regard with the added proviso that some actions are inherently flawed and that only God knows the true nature and consequence of our actions. Whereas psychology's unconditional positive regard allows one to fail utterly since the psychologist cannot demand that we take care of the whole world since he has no fundamentally better idea of how to do that than the patient. The consequence is that we need to be in a relationship with God who does know how.
Power of Love:
There is one power, however, which people, in general, have not learned to use at all, or have refused, somehow, to use, in solving their individual as well as collective problems. This is the power of love. Either they have no faith in it, or they do not know how to use it effectively. One reason, probably, is that most people usually identify love with sex. As a consequence of this wrong attitude, they lose contact with its higher dimensions and superior possibilities, and thus find themselves unable to release its hidden and inexhaustible stores of energy. These people do not know that sex is but one of the many possible expressions of love, and that love has powers more abundant, more profound, and more significant than the power of procreation or the propagation of the species.
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When Jesus told his disciples to love their enemies, he was not giving them, as some of us might suppose, a piece of stupid, even impossible, advice. On the contrary, he was telling them to use the greatest, most irresistible, power in the universe – THE POWER OF LOVE. He did not advocate the use of any kind of physical or material force. He very clearly advocated the use of the spiritual force of love. He knew very well that most men would counter hate with hate. That is the ordinary way. That is the human way. In advising the employment of love against hate, however, he underscored a new technique. This new technique would seek to tap for man's use an inexhaustible source of power--the heart of God himself. This extraordinary way would release from the depths of human personality, where God is, the power of love for use in the solution of human problems. This is not the ordinary human way. This is the divine way. It is the way God would solve a problem. In effect, Jesus told his disciples to be divine, to cease to be merely human, to become the sons of God that they really are by behaving like sons of God, and to solve their problems in the only way God would solve his problems, and that is, by the exercise of the power of love.
Many people think that love is just a sentiment good for poetry or for novels. How easy it is to forget that love is a law as inescapable in the world of human relations as gravitation is in the world of physical objects. But it is precisely just that - an inexorable law of thought and emotion the violation of which can bring about broken hearts and broken lives just as the violation of the law of gravitation can bring about broken arms and broken legs. Being a law, its operation involves energy transformation. The energy of love is the most unique kind of energy in the universe. It is creative, it is intelligent, and it is wise. Its transformations are the very expression of the Divine Mind itself. It fills the entire universe, but its mightiest seat of operation is in the heart of man. Every object in nature manifests, but man and man alone can manipulate it by the use of his mind and thus demonstrate the workings of God's mind. This energy of love, this power of love, which is the very energy of creation itself, is the technique which Jesus advised his disciples to use when he told them to "Love your enemies."
Love has many powers. Let us begin with the more obvious ones.
Love has the power to create happiness. This fact is so common an experience to most people that it is not even necessary to mention it. And if the happiness it creates is sometimes short-lived, the reason probably is that the love that creates it is still imperfect.
We forget that selfishness is almost always at the root of all unhappiness and that love, unselfish love, is the basis of all happiness. The man who says, "I am unhappy," actually proclaims to the world what he would be ashamed to admit openly, namely, that he is selfish. To be happy it is necessary to love, and to love truly it is necessary to be completely unselfish. Only the unselfish heart is capable of love and only the loving heart is capable of happiness.
There is a great law of happiness which, to my mind, should rank in importance with any other great discovery in science. It is the law which says: No man is capable of happiness who is incapable of loving one other person than himself.
I call this the Minimum Happiness Law.
Perhaps, when in love, one sees not the body but the soul. Perhaps love is clairvoyant and can penetrate the veil of flesh and see the radiant spirit within. Perhaps old age and ugliness are the illusion, and youth and beauty are the reality which, however, we cannot see, as long as we are not in love, or have ceased to love. Love, then, is the vision of the eternal, the experience of the never-dying, and the never-ending.
If we could only be in love every minute of our lives. If we could only be completely without hate, without anger, without rancor, without malice, without vengeance, without fear, without worry, without envy, without lie, without delusion, without cruelty, without greed, without selfishness, without any negative thought or emotion whatever; then, I am sure, we would have no sickness, no old age, and no death. Just think about it, there would be no wars, no crime, and people would live in harmony with each other. We will be able to trust one another, show respect to each other and help each other. How wonderful would that be????
Some Thing’s People with Disabilities’ Like To Hear:
Make no mistake –- people with disabilities love to hear good things. Praise, respect, jokes, romantic overtures, bring it on. They can turn a crappy day into an awesome one, but only if the words are uttered. For those who love interacting with people with disabilities, or have no problem with it whatsoever, here are things you can say that will brighten our day.
“I don’t care if you have a disability”
When you first meet someone on a romantic or a friendship basis, hearing the sweet words, “I don’t care you’re disabled” is the ultimate thing we could hear. We’re so often turned down or not included because of our disability. It’s a fact of life, so to hear these words staves off one of our biggest worries.
We may not get a chance to hear all of these things in our lives, but if we could hear just a few, oh we’d be some mighty happy people.
“You’re beautiful”
Another phrase we love to hear that’s universal is, “You’re beautiful,” or for the guys, “You’re hot.” Feeling sexually attractive is a huge happy-maker on the brain. It can be hard enough feeling attractive if you’re able bodied, it’s even harder when you have a disability and don’t fit the social norm of what’s considered attractive. For many of us, to hear this phrase just once would be one of the greatest things ever.
“It’s fixed!”
Mobility devices from wheelchairs and walkers to shower chairs and automatic lifts all breakdown more often than they should. Try using a wheelchair for a couple of weeks and see what I mean. It’s not like a watch breaking or anything like that when our things break. It’s a big deal. It’s our “legs,” the only vehicle we could ever drive, or our breathing machine. When our things break, we’re really stuck. So to hear the words “It’s fixed,” well… it can make us happier than a bucket full of clams.
“We’ll still figure out a way to make it work”
When you do come across a place that is not accessible, most places are afraid of liability and don’t even try to get you in thinking creatively. It can be a really heartbreaking. Feeling like you’re being discriminated against is never good, especially when they don’t understand your perspective. When you do run across a business that is more than willing to jerry-rig a solution, “Sure, we can figure out a way to make it work,” oh we love you. This phrase gives us faith in humanity.
“I love you”
Everybody wants to be loved and of course we are no different. Having someone tell us “I love you” is the epitome of acceptance in a romantic relationship, and most people with disabilities still want this in their life. We do not want to live solitary lives even if our disability is hard. We of course don’t want someone to lie and tell us they love us just to make us feel good in some kind of condescending way, but a lot of people with disabilities are single. It’s sad when so many people don’t give someone with a disability a chance.
Conclusion:
Judas exited the Last Supper into the night to betray the Lord, walking in darkness. Jesus is now left alone with his disciples. The table is now set for Jesus, the Good Teacher, to give the 11 the knowledge that they will need to acquire in order to live through the dark days that will be forthcoming.
The definition of Christian love is taught by the Lord himself as he says, "As I have loved you, you also must love one another." There it is, plain and simple. The ability to show love is not taught to us through pages of history; it was told to us by the Lord himself.
Remember that God did not have to create us but he chooses too. So in the same light as He creates us, we should be obedient to Him, respect and obey his teachings. We must all Show Love to One Another. God was, God is and God forever will be in charge and not us. Just think about this: a person goes to church and they have their cell phone on, now, that not only disturbs the service but also becomes irritating to the other members of the congregation who is deep in prayer. Also, a person goes to church and receives a phone call and leaves the service. Is this person really in charge? Well I think not. That person is a fool; he or she should not have even gone to church if he or she knew that they would leave before the sermon is done. Pay a little respect to God, make time for God. Without God, you will not be able to put clothes on your back, put food on your table, or drive a car for that matter.
Feeling unloved is strongly correlated with feelings of low self-esteem and depression.
People who both feel loved by others and who report loving other people tend to be happier.
Love can play a role in long-term health, and feeling emotionally connected may help increase immunity.
I consider love to be an invaluable super power. Love can be the difference between a functioning member of society and a non functioning member of society. Everyone wants a super power but not everyone realizes that they already have three of them: –
Everyone has the ability to communicate with talking and using their heads,
Everyone have a force field of love of someone that they would protect from harm and absolutely,
Everyone has the power to heal and mend someone who is or was broken like my family healed me.
More people should realize the power they have and use it to help all the people who don’t know or understand what they are missing.
One more word of advice and it is very important.
Many and wondrous are the Powers of Love:-
It creates happiness.
It awakens goodness.
It generates wisdom.
It conserves health.
It prolongs youth.
It creates beauty.
It induces long life.
It confers heaven.
It does many things which are pleasant and desirable.
But be careful, be very, very careful. Love without selfishness, love without thought of self. Love not for the things love can give, even heaven itself. Love only for love's own sake.
Otherwise, even the things love can give may disappear like smoke in the air.
I want to say that giving HOPE to someone is the same as giving LIFE to that person. So keep up the good work and God Bless You.