“Don’t ask what the world needs
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”
Howard
Thurman
In life you love or you lose
It’s really up to you to choose
It’s in what you say
Should have said
Or wish you hadn’t
Actions they say speak louder than words
So maybe
You should just do it
Come on now
Go Ahead
After all, in life
You should really only do what you love,
Or else Lose wins
And Love loses.
Stop holding back
Let Love propel you
Because if it wasn’t for love
You wouldn’t want it this bad -
The feeling of guilt and fear of rejection
The disappointment of failure and shame of falling short
Would not have gripped you that much
“Is this Love, Is this Love, Is this Love
Is this Love that I’m feelin’? ”
Don’t give up
Love till you can love no more
For ‘tis better to have loved and lost
Than to have lost what you love
So it's been a LONG time. Long is an understatement but yeah due to laziness and a number of unfinished writings it's been quite a while but I'm back! And Hopefully I'll do a better job.
Post inspired by self thought and reflection on life, loving and losing. As you see it's just one letter change that makes the difference. Wrote this on my flight to Dubai ( : o ) - [Tigger smile] flying over Sudan (they need our love and prayers) Partially inspired after watching London, Paris, New York (Great Bollywood Movie) and listening to Jason Mraz's Love is a Four Letter Word Album (Yo Emirates is the truth, take a trip with them!)
But yea, just simmer on this a bit. When we do things we don't love, they are tiring, boring, painful and at a loss to our cause. This is different from doing things we love even though we may not want to do them. In such cases we are still #WINNING even if it feels like we are losers for doing them.
Reflection Point: Think about your day to day activities and more so even your walk with God. Does it benefit you to do things that make you lose even though they make you win with the in crowd? At the end of the day you live your life, not them. What's the point of not doing what you love because you're scared you'll lose the things society says are important? Do we not let go or lose certain things because we love something greater? In loving we may lose, but you never love in losing.
People, including myself, go round giving up the good things they have, their morals and values to look cool. Definitely a 'Lose Move' right there. Think, what did you really gain? A few minutes of fame, pleasure, or whatever. Then it's gone. Or you may still be living in the moment or deceit. Will it last? Is it real?
Now, losing things that are of no worth to you to reach and attain better things - that's a worthy loss. And why do we do so. Because of Love. In relationships. in our workplaces, we give up things, come to reasonable compromises because of Love. In losing the hurtful, non-essential crap we tend to get what we want and more so what we need and love it!
Philippians 3: 7- 11
7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which isthrough faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Christ lost His life because He loved us so much! That love and God's power overcame death and set us free. Why do we keep losing then? We should not lose ourselves for the sake of worldly things for they never count as loss for love or for Christ. That's just double loss. A Twi speaking Ghanaian would say W'abo loss paa. SERIOUS! (meaning that's a Huge loss to you)
Go out there and Love. Love never Fails. 1st Corinthians 13 Verse 13 says: And now abide faith, hope , love, these three; but the greatest of these is love!
So think about it, Are you going to Love or Lose? It's really up to you to Choose!
