Love is Not A Commodity That We Acquire and Hoard

Love is not a commodity that we can acquire and hoard. Love can only be released. Love, then, is not a toy of human caprice-something we can trot out and use and then take back and put away when we are finished with someone. Know that love is not something you have to master, but only to allow. Love is a divine activity. Loving others is impossible until we love ourselves. Without love for ourselves, there is no "baseline" to measure other love. The power that is love begins with God, to be sure, but we need to accept that love as our own before it can be sent to someone else. The more we accept God's love, the more we allow it to pass on to others. God is love. How simple. How succinct. How complete. How utterly perfect! God is love.