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| Power Style Wellness Connections |
Love Comes Back
By Bob Mueller
I have found there is only one way to make up
for the love I have missed. The most creative,
constructive power on this earth is the power of
love. Love is like a boomerang: send it forth
and it comes back to you with even greater
force. There is a poem that tells us: “Give love
and love to your heart will flow, a strength in your utmost need.”
Elias Howe, a man broken in health and poverty stricken, felt his life was over.
Day by day he watched his wife slowly sewing to get them a little money for
the next meal. Beyond and above all things, Howe loved his wife, and it hurt
him to watch her work so hard.
Because of his love for her, he forgot his sick body and began thinking how
he might help her. He went to work and six months later had completed the
first model for a sewing machine. It made him famous and rich, and it also
made him well. The power of a great love came back to bless him.
Alexander Graham Bell, a great benefactor of humankind, taught at a school
for the deaf. He fell in love and married one of his pupils. She could not hear,
and because Bell loved her, he suffered because of her handicap.
The consuming passion of his life was to do something to help the one he
loved. He decided it would be possible to develop a hearing aid, and he set to
work. He never counted the hours he spent working on it. He only knew he
wanted to help the one he loved. In the process of his experimentation, he
developed the telephone. The love he gave came back to him as a creative,
constructive force.
The very moment you fall in love with a great idea or a great cause or a great
purpose or another person, you become creative. Life takes on new meaning
and new direction. You forget the failures of the past. You develop new faith
and new powers. Pessimism, doubt, despair, discouragements, and all your
negative attitudes are expelled under the power of a great love.
Love of self, family, and of enemies increases the harmonious conditions that
affect us all. Like the ripples from a pebble dropped in a stream, the act of
loving moves beyond the object receiving the love at this moment. In fact, the
love we give is the love we’ll receive.
It is a demonstrable fact that hatred breeds hatred. Just as absolute is the
knowledge that the love we offer another makes easier the gift of love to yet
another. Love multiples itself and the harmony created nurtures us all.
I have found there is only one way to make up for the love I have missed. That
one way is by loving.
Try it. Try it today. Here is how: think of one who irritates you, someone you
do not love. Pray for that one right now, calling the name in your prayers and
thoughts. During the day, study that person. What are some of his or her
good qualities? What are some of his or her bad qualities? Try to figure out
why that person has that bad quality. Be an amateur psychiatrist and analyze
the cause of those things in that person that cause you not to love him or her.
Resolve to love that one “in spite of” even if you cannot love him or her “on
account of.”
Try to gain that one victory of love. You will feel a lot better. Try it and see.
Bob Mueller is Vice President of Development, Hospice of Louisville, Southern
Indiana and Central Kentucky. He has three books: Look Forward
Hopefully and The Gentle Art of Caring, and his
newest, Create a Better World. Bob can be emailed at
bobmueller@iamtodayswoman.com.
By Bob Mueller
I have found there is only one way to make up
for the love I have missed. The most creative,
constructive power on this earth is the power of
love. Love is like a boomerang: send it forth
and it comes back to you with even greater
force. There is a poem that tells us: “Give love
and love to your heart will flow, a strength in your utmost need.”
Elias Howe, a man broken in health and poverty stricken, felt his life was over.
Day by day he watched his wife slowly sewing to get them a little money for
the next meal. Beyond and above all things, Howe loved his wife, and it hurt
him to watch her work so hard.
Because of his love for her, he forgot his sick body and began thinking how
he might help her. He went to work and six months later had completed the
first model for a sewing machine. It made him famous and rich, and it also
made him well. The power of a great love came back to bless him.
Alexander Graham Bell, a great benefactor of humankind, taught at a school
for the deaf. He fell in love and married one of his pupils. She could not hear,
and because Bell loved her, he suffered because of her handicap.
The consuming passion of his life was to do something to help the one he
loved. He decided it would be possible to develop a hearing aid, and he set to
work. He never counted the hours he spent working on it. He only knew he
wanted to help the one he loved. In the process of his experimentation, he
developed the telephone. The love he gave came back to him as a creative,
constructive force.
The very moment you fall in love with a great idea or a great cause or a great
purpose or another person, you become creative. Life takes on new meaning
and new direction. You forget the failures of the past. You develop new faith
and new powers. Pessimism, doubt, despair, discouragements, and all your
negative attitudes are expelled under the power of a great love.
Love of self, family, and of enemies increases the harmonious conditions that
affect us all. Like the ripples from a pebble dropped in a stream, the act of
loving moves beyond the object receiving the love at this moment. In fact, the
love we give is the love we’ll receive.
It is a demonstrable fact that hatred breeds hatred. Just as absolute is the
knowledge that the love we offer another makes easier the gift of love to yet
another. Love multiples itself and the harmony created nurtures us all.
I have found there is only one way to make up for the love I have missed. That
one way is by loving.
Try it. Try it today. Here is how: think of one who irritates you, someone you
do not love. Pray for that one right now, calling the name in your prayers and
thoughts. During the day, study that person. What are some of his or her
good qualities? What are some of his or her bad qualities? Try to figure out
why that person has that bad quality. Be an amateur psychiatrist and analyze
the cause of those things in that person that cause you not to love him or her.
Resolve to love that one “in spite of” even if you cannot love him or her “on
account of.”
Try to gain that one victory of love. You will feel a lot better. Try it and see.
Bob Mueller is Vice President of Development, Hospice of Louisville, Southern
Indiana and Central Kentucky. He has three books: Look Forward
Hopefully and The Gentle Art of Caring, and his
newest, Create a Better World. Bob can be emailed at
bobmueller@iamtodayswoman.com.