Love connects the dots

I know , I know , funny title but yesterday I was thinking about different religions, faiths , churches. It seems as though each one has one area they stress more and are stronger in. I'm not saying that is a bad thing. It can be good. That is why we all need each other as humans. Just think about all of the different personalities and talents in this world. Some of the most brilliant inventors excelled in one area yet struggled in another area. For instance Albert Einstein, he struggled with speech and was slow to speak yet was amazing in other areas. At age 5 he marvelled at the forces that turned the compass of a needle and at age 12 he read a geometry book over and over. You can read a biography and watch a video about him at the link below.

Albert Einstein Biography

One of my grand daughters has some trouble with speech. She does quite well and is an intelligent and delightful child yet she was slow to begin speaking and hard to understand sometimes but she is doing better all the time. She is 7. She had hearing tests and it isn't that. She is bright and learns easy enough but something I really notice about her is her capacity to show affection. She is the third child in a large family of 5 girls and one baby boy. (There are 2 sets of twins in there, she was born in the middle of the 2 sets of twins) She just eats up the attention like a sponge! She loves to cuddle and hug and have stories read to her. She has these soft brown eyes that will melt your heart! God has given her such a precious gift and she shines! God has given us all a gift and we are precious in His eyes!

This is Emma with one of her little sisters. She is the touchy, cuddle and love type.

I love all of my grand children yet each one has something special that stands out. Emma is the sweety as far as expressing her love.

Children are definitely a gift from God. My family is love, inspiration and life to me and of all the grand and glorious things there are to do in this world I believe that one of the greatest contributions we can make is investing our time and love in action towards children. We can also learn from them and be inspired in the wonder of life because growing up and experiencing the hurts we all do in different ways sometimes clouds our vision to the beauty of the simple things we fail to appreciate.

Psalm 145:3,4 NLT
Great is the Lord! He is most worthy of praise! No one can measure his greatness.
Let each generation tell its children of your mighty acts; let them proclaim your power.

My Bible tells me that the kingdom of Heaven is within me and that we are the temple of the Holy Spirit so it's so much more than the places people gather, it is the people who are gathered there. Where ever we chose to make our place of worship and whatever we learn in the process the greatest is LOVE. Whatever we do should be in love. I like the quote by Mother Theresa 

“In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.”

The greatest LOVE that I know as a Christian is the LOVE of God towards me. What He has done is a GREAT thing for all of us.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Love is what connects the dots of all the good things that we can do whatever our religious beliefs . If there is genuine love and concern it makes all the difference!

1 Corinthians 13

New International Version (NIV)

1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.