Tough Love

 My word of the year suffered last month. I find that the harder I try to change certain things I know need to be changed, the harder it is to do so. I've been letting certain people, mainly family members, get under my skin. I've had less than loving thoughts and feelings towards them. None of which are justifiable. It's just been.......hard!

There are a couple of girls in Activity Days that drive me crazy. The more I've learned about them and the kind of home they come from, the more I can see why they act the way they do. This is what I try to remember when I find patience wearing thin. I think sometimes the people who are the hardest for us to love are the ones that need it most. Especially children.

Here are a few scriptures that have helped me:

 Moroni 7:47
 But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him.

1 John 4:18

 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Romans 13:10

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

1 John 4:16

 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Love encompasses so many things. I know that having the kind of love the Lord wants us to can only come through him. I think I may have chosen the word of a lifetime.  And I have a long way to go.