Bold Love

If I asked you, “What is your plan for increasing your capacity to give and receive love,” how would you answer? If love is the greatest, if love is what God wants more than anything else, and if the world needs more love—what is your workout plan to make it happen? What is your strategic plan to increase love in your life and church?

If my capacity for giving and receiving love is to increase, I have to regularly drink from the fountain of the love of God. Remember the passage that says, “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19)? That teaches that I am never going to increase my love capacity until I increase my capacity to receive love from God.
--Bill Hybels, Bold Love

Response to Challenges

We have a choice about how we deal with life's endless challenges. We can react with hope or despair, with courage or fear, with enthusiasm or indifference.
--Maggie Pinkney, Pocket Positives for Living

A reader responds:
I choose Hope, Courage, and Enthusiasm, as undoubtedly Maggie does as well.

But to be Hopeful one must plan comprehensively and expeditiously, and execute effectively.

One can't help being Courageous in one's quest if one is Hopeful.

And finally, if one carefully implements all of the above in sequence, one's attitude certainly must be one of Enthusiasm!!

With that Enthusiasm under one's "utility belt," one has no guarantee of ALWAYS being successful, but it sure empowers one to keep on trying.... it gets a bit tiresome sometimes, though!! :) - José