My mission to be a master of love started several months ago. The idea is to commit to loves ways for eight hours a day in the hopes of accumulating ten thousand hours of practice in order to become an expert. By the three and a half year mark, I hope to be known as a loving person. I want to be described as a model of what love looks like, acts like and is. I have hit many a road block, crashed into unexpected u-turn obstacles and have had to be righted and corrected repeatedly but I have to say, I do believe I am well on my way to mastery. It will only take me a life time…not the three years I have left from my zealous calculations. In the mean time, I practice. I asked you earlier, have you ever expected one thing and gotten another? I have…
As a perfectly imperfect person, I have been shown mercy. So much mercy that I could soak the front of my shirt from tears of gratitude. I have said and done things that I wish I could take back. I have acted out of selfish interest and hurt people I love. I have been vicious and mean, self protective and unforgiving and through it all, I have been shown mercy, human and heavenly mercy. Undeserved mercy. My middle name is Grace. It means the unmerited favour of God. Yes, unmerited and loved; loved despite all that I described above. Love has confounded me dear reader, in its gracious generosity and I hear the words spoken by the apostle Paul above “What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a whip, or in love and with a gentle spirit?” While I deserve the whip and we all do, dear reader, God took the lashing for us. I don’t know about you, but I cannot bare the heavy penalty that I have incurred and my answer to the question is I prefer love, and this love given with a gentle spirit. What is your answer to the questions dear reader?
And so I am plying my trade. I am committing my energy. I am keeping my eyes on the Love Master so that I too, can be expert practitioner in gracious generosity, and loving with a gentle spirit. This is within our reach dear reader. It has been done before. We are capable of this type of grandeur of expression in fact you; you are capable of this dear one! You can choose your weapon.
What will it be, whip or love?
