With Love

January 18, 2019 • 3 Comments

Image by Kelly Tonks

This Sunday, I was thinking about the healing power of love. How, when people are going through a tough time, sometimes all they need is to be loved. I’ve even noticed this as a parent. When one of my kids is making it difficult to love them, love is likely the only thing that child needs from me. This led me to thinking—maybe my focus this week should be to infuse everything I do with love…

Relationship with love.	Walk with love.	Email with love.
Parent with love.	Fold with love.	Call with love.
Work with love.	Cook with love.	Talk with love.
Drive with love.	Clean with love.	Listen with love.

With all of the goals I set for myself on a daily basis: get to that meeting, edit those images, return that phone call, email, text, have dinner ready by 5:30 so that so-and-so can eat before tryouts….it’s nice to return to the overall life-goal, which is to be loving. Of course there was some Yelling with love, but for the most part, there was just love. And my experience was that, while my intention was to help to heal others, acting with love proved to be much more healing to me.

This ‘with love’ seemed to have more of an impact on me than my gratitude practices. Have you ever tried to focus on love rather than gratitude? I’d appreciate hearing your thoughts in the comment section below (and don’t forget to check back for my reply).

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Comments

Mags

I HAVE TO GIVE A LITTLE SHOUT-OUT TO MY BUDDY KELLY TONKS FOR TAKING THIS PICTURE.
www.kellytonksphotography.com
Please take a second to look at this beautiful woman's work.
Thank you Kelly.

And Kel,
I like your description of it as, "intentional love."
It reminds me that I can often be putting out unintentional indifference.

Interesting Synne. It's a really important reminder to tell people how I feel most loved, but my real work has been just accepting how others show their love to me. Thank you for checking in.
And I FINALLY got to listen to your "Cole" podcast. Thanks so much for sharing that with me.
SUCH a cute boy, with such a great name~

Synne(non-registered)

I have been thinking and learning about love myself lately. And I love this post. Next up on my reading list is 5 Love Languages because I am learning that how I need to express love to others is not necessarily the same way I need others to express love to me.

Kelly tonks

Love it as always, which is interesting I think this intentional love concept is more likely to bring it back to you. Although it cant be the motivation, it is a healing byproduct for all. Gratitude of coarse, thats almost private work but love is about the us.
So love your perspective and your acuity and you!!

xo

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