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LOVE, PRAYER AND WORK


LOVE:
Most of us think that love gets diminished when we start loving more people, that we have only a limited amount of the emotion, which we should be very careful in dispensing. We worry about divided loyalties and being fair to all those we love. Often, we wonder about women who had multiple children and how little love each child must be getting.

However, now we know that love expands to include more. The more we love, the bigger our capacity for the emotion becomes.  Love is not quantifiable and therefore not finite. But love is not indestructible. If not cherished and nurtured, it can indeed be lost !

Love does not hang around indefinitely, waiting for nourishment. Love needs to know that it is cherished, welcomed and appreciated. Love demands love, and in the absence of appreciation, dwindles, and may even fade away.

Loving others and being loved back gives us an unparalled sense of well-being and a rare confidence. We all cherish those who love us because of how they make us feel. If love demands love, it begets love in equal measure too.

PRAYER:
We think there are limit to the number of prayers that get answered, that praying for other would use up  my own quota.

But in reality, the more we pray, the more we are blessed. When we pray selflessly for others, we are blessed many times.

WORK:
We all think that there is a limit to the amount of work we can do. That work is dependent on the number of hours in the day and the amount of energy we have. When too many things piled up we end up not achieving half that we have done with a cool mind.

The amount of work that can be achieved is all a matter of organization and being able to distance ourselves from the little tasks in order to gear ourselves towards the ones that require immediate attention.

Multi-tasking is taking on several tasks, but focusing on them one at a time. It is about being able to train and delegate, about trusting and allowing others to grow. Once we achieve this, we can take much work, as we like, and stretch time beyond limit.

There is no limit to the amount of love, prayer, forgiveness and work that we can achieve in life. Life and experience teach us to let go a little in order to gain a lot, become selfless in order to gain something for our own self. What we let go with good intention and sincerity, comes back to bless us several times !

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