Common Ground

We have developed faith trust, acceptance, honesty, and generosity during our spiritual quest. These qualities have become the expressions of our love today.

For example, when we demonstrate, faith by giving a partner or spouse our unqualified support (rather than trying to manage their every move), we are expressing love. When we accept someone exactly as he or she is, including faults, weaknesses, and idiosyncrasies, we are being loving. When we are generous of heart, thinking of others’ happiness before our own, we are putting love into action.

We’re gradually discovering what love is all about. In the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi’s inspiring prayer, we are finding that it is far better to comfort than to be comforted, to understand than to be understood, to give than to receive, to love than to be loved.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY; When I express my love with actions, that is when I feel the most loving.


This next one is on COMMUNICATION what we do every day and take for granted!
There’s been an enormous improvement in all of our relationships now that we’re communicating our thoughts, feelings, and opinions in healthy and constructive ways.

Where once we retreated and sulked following an argument, we’re now more willing to put our pride behind us and make the first move toward reconciliation.

We often avoid friends if a tragedy had occurred in their lives, because we felt uncomfortable and didn’t know what to say. Today we realize the importance of reaching out to those in pain with kindness, caring, and love.

We used to let things go unsaid and allow them to fester within us. Today we recognize that others cannot read our minds; they can only know what we’ve told them. When there’s conflict in our relationships these days, we take steps right away to deal with it.

When parents pushed our buttons in the past, we got angry and fought back. Now we try to exercise self-restraint by calmly letting them know how we feel, and then going on to something else.

Our language skills always seemed inadequate to express what we felt. We’ve come to see that while words are important, so too are facial expressions, gesture, and even silence. A smile or gentle touch can be as articulate and reassuring as anything we say.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY: I HAVE CHOICES IN THE WAY I COMMUNICATE MY THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS.
The following is taken from 365 days of love on a day by journey into the magic and meaning of love in her poetic prose and warm-hearted style of author Daphne Rose Kingma which offers us rich reflections on the transformative power of love.

And I thought the following was so appropriate since the first words someone gets form us is so important.

The Power of Your Words
What we say to one another, the tenderness with which we reveal our hopes and disappointments and unveil our dreams and fear, the language with which we complain and ask for comfort or forgiveness, the phrases with which e encourage, the sentences with which we negotiate, the care with which we choose our words – all these are the ways we bond ourselves thorough language.

Language, conveying particular meaning though specifically ordered arrangements of sounds, is a peculiarly human ability. Through our words, what we say and the care with which we deliver them, we can enhance or diminish, create or destroy our experience of love.

Do it Right Now
The beautiful things you want to say to the person you love, say them now; the walks you want to take on the beach but think you don’t have time for, take them now;

The conversations that come from your heart, the sorrows you need to share, the shoulder you want to offer your sweetheart to cry on, offer it now.

Time is so fast and life is so short; you and your darling won’t be here forever. So long as we’re here, as human beings loving each other, we need to say the words, have the fun, do the things, give the gifts, open our hearts, console one another. Time isn’t forever.

Whatever it is, do it now.

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