It is hard sometimes to love people in a way that God expects from us. Do you want to know how to practically love people? I will give you some tips that will teach you how to practically love people and how to live out God’s unconditional love, thus making you and people around you happy.
1. By getting up in the morning, making a decision to show gratitude to God through a supportive and friendly attitude towards others. I advise that every morning, you thank God that He has given us the opportunity to wake up, that He keeps us safe and helps in achieving our goals. Ask God for the chance to express this gratitude towards others. Use every day that God gives you to multiply the love and goodness, and do not allow yourself to think negatively of anyone. Take care of not being ungrateful towards God and other people.
2. Practice compassion and empathy. It is important to be able to be in other people’s shoes. Even if everything is going wrong in your life, try to imagine those who suffer even more: someone has a drug addicted child, an alcoholic husband, cancer or major problems at work. Think what would happen if it was you in their shoes. In your morning prayer do not forget those who suffer more than you do. This helps us to develop compassion for others.
“Compassion is the real source of true justice and humanity,” Arthur Schopenhauer.
3. Usually, the reason we may not understand another person is because we have different world views, experiences and attitudes to life. While communicating with people it is important to find not what divides us, but what unites us, not to built walls, but bridges.
It is my hope that after reading this you will be encouraged to live a life that shows gratitude, compassion and love; especially towards those who don’t deserve it!
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