We choose to love!

When we choose to show up in love, we get to feel love.

We feel whatever we choose.

When we choose to show up with something other than love like anger who feels the anger? We do.

We think that is we withhold love till the other person gets their act together and acts how we want them to then I will feel better because I will not be wasting my love on someone who does not appreciate it.

But who suffers when I do not choose love? Me.

When I choose love, I get to feel love.

We often think that we get to experience love when someone else shows us love, sure, but then we are giving our power away and depending on someone else for how we feel.

We always get to experience love when we choose to show up in love.

Love is always available as a choice we can make.

Love is an action, a way of living, a way of feeling, not just a feeling.

Too often we let the way things “should be” dictate our behavior, or we keep score to decide our behavior.

Practicing love changes us and then it changes the recipient of our love.

Our love of other people creates more love in us, which makes us stronger, and more courageous, and more beautiful, and more resilient.

Love creates the results we want.

Love is large and incredibly patient. Love is gentle and consistently kind to all. It refuses to be jealous when blessing comes to someone else. Love does not brag about one’s achievements nor inflate its own importance. Love does not traffic in shame and disrespect, nor selfishly seek its own honor. Love is not easily irritated or quick to take offense. Love joyfully celebrates honesty and finds no delight in what is wrong. Love is a safe place of shelter, for it never stops believing the best for others. Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up. Love never stops loving. 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8a TPT