No matter the wisdom we acquire in this life or the knowledge we gain, there is always more that life is willing to teach us. Being resistant to that gift seems to make receiving it that much more inevitable.
So, learning from life, I came to understand more deeply the meaning of loving a dear friend. I recently found myself failing to empathize and being unwilling to offer any sympathy for a situation because I had intellectually written off the problem my friend was dealing with as being solely her problem. My pride, my ego perhaps, allowed me to polarize myself and create a seperation from the friend whom I love. After internally slapping myself in the back of the head and by looking more deeply into myself, I realized I was wrong in my attitude and therefore wrong in my behavior.
I realized something important which I had negligently forgotten: Love is not only caring for the physical needs of our fellow humans, it is trying to care for the whole person. This means caring for the mental, emotional, and spitual needs of others in addition to the tangible needs.
I'm happy that this returned to me with more clarity. Loving the whole person is an important key to effectively and influentially living a life of love.
Always love.
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