Thursday,
2/11/16
Jesus said, “Whoever
wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will save it.”
The one way we
have of lawfully losing ourselves is for us to develop such a love for others
that our desire for their wellbeing keeps our self love under control, freeing
us to lawfully lose ourselves.
Most people
looking for love are looking for someone to love them, but what they need to do
is to find someone to whom they can give love.
The people most
of us have known who saved their lives by losing it were our parents. Clothing
and educating us gave them a satisfaction that had them almost forgetting their
own needs.
While
self-sacrificing parents are a clear example of those who save their lives by
losing their self-absorption, there must be another way open to those of us not
in a position to start a family. What we might do is make the effort to turn
our concern away from ourselves by giving unselfish love to some individual or individuals
who are badly in need of love.
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