...Find Love.
I had a bible study a week before last where the focus was 1 Corinthians 16:14 which says
"Let all that you do be done in love".
And it asked after reflecting on this scripture to think about your daily activities and think on how you go about completing them. After asking to list them in detail, it then followed by saying how can you start completing these task with Love? How can you add Love to each?
If I am being honest I thought I did complete things with love, but once I broke down what I did daily I realized I don't think I really do. Whether it is intentional or not.
Thinking back to last weekends "Fading" post I think they can relate. When you fade into a routine you then start to complete every day actions because it is what you are suppose to do and begin to lose site of why you started something to begin with and why you are still doing it. You start to wonder if you are doing it because you really love it or you are doing it because it is the right thing or you want something out of it.
I mean doing the laundry and washing dishes, watering your plants or cooking dinner. Something a lot of individuals do because you have to. Who finds love in doing the laundry? What can you love about doing the dishes?
These were questions I had to answer during this lesson.
At first I was not sure, but then I dug deeper and realized I can love doing the laundry and dishes just because it helps keeps things clean and organized, and for a neat freak like me that is an accomplishment I look forward to. I do not dread my weekend washing, because afterwards I know things are in order. Making sure hampers are not overfilled and dish racks and sinks stay emptied and hard to remove food clumped free. Started loving to cook again instead of seeing it as time consuming by creating new and fun recipes, experimenting with ingredients I was using over and over again by mixing it up. Then loving to water the plants because it can take you away by focusing on something else you are trying to keep alive and feeling a sense of reward when the bulb you started with turns into something bigger and filled out.
Now I believe these are smaller activities several look over and follow through with because they are seen as chores and what have to be done, but take a look at them now, do you think you can complete these task with love as well?
How about we take it up a notch.
What about your daily job? Is it one you love, that was may be your dream job? If so that is awesome not many can find that or have that, but even if this is the case do you still love it or just going through the motions now?
You would think finding love in dirty laundry and keeping plants alive would be hard, but no, for me that was simple. The hard part was when it came to my daily duties at my job. Not because I do not love my job, but because it is hard for me to see my job as a job, which I thought was the right thing. Aren't you suppose to have a job where it is not a job to you but something you look forward to and want to do? I think I let my mind get the best of me and let others influence how I feel due to not many would see what I do as important or consider it "a real job" and so as I let these thoughts and others effect me I started tuning out why I started down this career path to begin with and why I still want to do it and pursue these types of careers. A job as a creator in many ways and taking on care positions, formal or non, in different aspects throughout life. I lost what I loved about these things without even realizing I was losing myself, after I felt others did not appreciate it or love it as much as I did. Wanting to change my story writing because it was different or stop caring in my actions because it became annoying to others and I came off as trying to hard, and when breaking it down and finally admitting to myself I was worrying and overthinking way to much I realized my love for it all was being blocked. This was a portion of each day I would complete actions with love and joy at one point, but then unknowingly stopped that, but I now know love is also something I can bring back to these jobs as I push forward in life.
My jobs as a daily activity for this part of the lesson I will have to continue working on in life and not something that can be finished in a week like the lesson planned, but that is fine by me. Not everything comes easy with love. It changes and grow as you do to and a continuing process that has to be worked on and shown. But at least now I know I can and will and do complete my daily activities in and with love as we should and when I fail I will be more aware and just have to bring myself back to this study.
Now tell me, what are your daily activities?
Are you doing these with love or have you lost that?
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