Reflection of Day 2
Questions for Day 2
- What discoveries about love did you make today?
- What specifically did you do in this dare?
- How did you show kindness?
- How can you make this a daily habit?
Well yesterday's dare, (06/30/20), I continued to not saying anything negative to Lorenzo; and I continued to show love and kindness towards him. It was overall another great day. The discoveries that I made about love today was that whenever you show love it will be reflected back to you. I didn't do anything specific in regards to this dare, I just continued to show unconditionally love and kindness by speaking love and kindness towards. I am going to try and continue to make this a daily habit in my everyday life with him. God is good.
- What discoveries about love did you make today?
- What specifically did you do in this dare?
- How did you show kindness?
- How can you make this a daily habit?
Well yesterday's dare, (06/30/20), I continued to not saying anything negative to Lorenzo; and I continued to show love and kindness towards him. It was overall another great day. The discoveries that I made about love today was that whenever you show love it will be reflected back to you. I didn't do anything specific in regards to this dare, I just continued to show unconditionally love and kindness by speaking love and kindness towards. I am going to try and continue to make this a daily habit in my everyday life with him. God is good.
Day 3: Love is Not Selfish |
Today's Goal:
Today (07/01/2020), well today is the first day of the month and 11 days until my 35th Birthday. Each day on this journey is one more day of learning of how to love and continue to be the best version that God is calling me to be. I feel like today's dare will be another great day.
There was a couple of quotes from today's reading that definitely caught my attention and had me take a step back and really see that I have been selfish and doing a lot of things the wrong way. It was kind of like a slap in the face. One of the quotes was saying how "selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. When we choose self-centeredness we become higher maintenance, more needy, overly sensitive, demanding and then when we don't get our way, we judge others harshly while being blind to our wrong faults." Then another one was saying how when people say things such as "I deserve... and I expect... and I want..." these are all appetizers we use to feed our selfishness and how "moodiness and complaining are selfishness in disguise..." I guess I didn't realize that my "generous actions could be considered selfish if the motive is to gain bragging rights or to receive a reward..." I need to either make decisions out of love for others or love for yourself. So with that in mind, I am going to make decisions with love for my spouse and not expect anything in return.
1 Corinthians 13:5, NIV: "It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs."
Philippians 2:3, ESV: "Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves."
- Do I truly want what's best for my spouse?
- Do I want them to feel loved by me ?
- Do they believe that I have their best interest in mind
- Do they see me as looking out for myself first or them first ?
There was a couple of quotes from today's reading that definitely caught my attention and had me take a step back and really see that I have been selfish and doing a lot of things the wrong way. It was kind of like a slap in the face. One of the quotes was saying how "selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. When we choose self-centeredness we become higher maintenance, more needy, overly sensitive, demanding and then when we don't get our way, we judge others harshly while being blind to our wrong faults." Then another one was saying how when people say things such as "I deserve... and I expect... and I want..." these are all appetizers we use to feed our selfishness and how "moodiness and complaining are selfishness in disguise..." I guess I didn't realize that my "generous actions could be considered selfish if the motive is to gain bragging rights or to receive a reward..." I need to either make decisions out of love for others or love for yourself. So with that in mind, I am going to make decisions with love for my spouse and not expect anything in return.
1 Corinthians 13:5, NIV: "It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs."
Philippians 2:3, ESV: "Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves."
- Do I truly want what's best for my spouse?
- Do I want them to feel loved by me ?
- Do they believe that I have their best interest in mind
- Do they see me as looking out for myself first or them first ?