Happiness
Making Love - A priority
By Kirk Wilkinson
Apr 21, 2008

MAKING LOVE – A priority

How do you define love? Of all the human emotions and feelings love is likely the most difficult to define. Many of us rely on “I’ll know it when I feel it,” or “I’ll know it when I see it,” to define love. For me, love is best defined by what it is not. Love is NOT envy, strife, contention, jealousy, anger, revenge, hate, resentment, and so on. It is easy to think of love as a romantic feeling between two or more people because that is how we have been trained to think. But love is more than that. Love is the energy and power that exists in all of our encounters with other people. Love is a power that will transform any situation or circumstance. You don’t need to wait for love; you don’t need to wait for someone or something to happen for you to experience this love. Love is made as you give it away to those around you.

Can you imagine living a life free of worry, problems, and stress? How about living each day without negativity, problems or adversity? As impossible and improbable as it may sound you can live a problem free, conflict fee, stress free life by making love the utmost priority in any situation or circumstance. True love is created when you give someone the benefit of the doubt, forgive them, ask their forgiveness, give service, or say thank you. As you make this kind of love a priority you will receive more love than you can imagine. As this love enters your life you will feel brighter, you will smile more often, you will notice the beauty all around you and have a more positive outlook on life.

Making love a priority means that in every encounter, every appointment, every task, and every situation love is your primary purpose. Love becomes more important than being right, more important than getting even, or making sure someone gets what they deserve. It is love that allows you to overlook the flaws or inadequacies of those around you. Love permits us to forgive and forget the offences of others. With love as your priority those things just don’t matter any more.

The more you embrace love as your only purpose in any situation and give up on the rest, the more the rest will embrace you. Love is like the water thrown on the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. When drenched with water, the Wicked Witch dissolves. Love dissolves all negativity, discord, conflict, anger, contention, fear and strife. In all things, in all places, in all circumstances, love is all that matters. Love is all that is real.

I can’t even begin to explain the blessings, the abundance of peace, and the happiness that has come into my life as a result of making love the highest priority over all else. Relationships have been healed, resentment has faded, miracles have happened, and I am happy. I no longer have problems but opportunities to love. I no longer have adversity but growth opportunities. This is not just a word game or a game of positive thinking or simply seeing the world through rose colored glasses. It is real problem solving through the power of love.

As you make love a priority, all of those things that love is NOT will dissolve from your life. You will start to experience a new found beauty that will grow from the inside out. Just as a flower will open up when exposed to the sun, your inner beauty will blossom by MAKING LOVE a priority.