Choose to Give the Gift of Love
As we journey into the new year, there are many gifts we can give ourselves and others. The greatest gift we can give is and always will be love. Love is the only gift that guarantees lasting happiness. I learned a valuable lesson about the gift of love/happiness in a recent visit with some friends who just had a baby. Shortly after I arrived at their house, Dad and his Mother-in-Law got into a tiff with each other. Apparently something had been brewing between the two of them and they allowed it to spill over—onto all of us. Why? Because they were neither one coming from a loving place. And they were willing to sacrifice their happiness by holding on to their rightness. They chose to be justified in their perceived rightness rather than to be justified authentically by swallowing their pride and allowing love to carry them to a higher place. What they didn’t understand was that in choosing to stick to their rightness, they both sacrificed their happiness. We were about t...