If you love someone, you wait for them. Feeling love, you do not try to force or coerce another person.
If your friend does not wish to go with you, with love you do not insist on your friend going with you. Love does not demand; love does not intimidate; love is not overbearing.
Love gently waits. Love generously gives room to another person to come when he or she is ready, or even never at all, if that is what the other person chooses. Love lets someone else choose for herself.
Love respects another person's free will. Love gives someone else comfort and peace from the dignity of being allowed the latitude to make his own choices.
Love softly submits to the law of freedom. Love obeys the necessity that people must have the dignity of making their own choices. Love tenderly tells that others must be free to realize in their own time who they are.
Since we desire our own freedom, we must let others be free, and not enslave them in our ideas of who we want them to be. If we wish to be respected, we must respect others. Knowing that we wish to be loved, we can come to love our neighbor as ourselves, as Jesus taught us to do.*
* Matthew 22:39; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27; Leviticus 19:18; Romans 13:9; Galatians 5:14
If your friend does not wish to go with you, with love you do not insist on your friend going with you. Love does not demand; love does not intimidate; love is not overbearing.
Love gently waits. Love generously gives room to another person to come when he or she is ready, or even never at all, if that is what the other person chooses. Love lets someone else choose for herself.
Love respects another person's free will. Love gives someone else comfort and peace from the dignity of being allowed the latitude to make his own choices.
Love softly submits to the law of freedom. Love obeys the necessity that people must have the dignity of making their own choices. Love tenderly tells that others must be free to realize in their own time who they are.
Since we desire our own freedom, we must let others be free, and not enslave them in our ideas of who we want them to be. If we wish to be respected, we must respect others. Knowing that we wish to be loved, we can come to love our neighbor as ourselves, as Jesus taught us to do.*
* Matthew 22:39; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27; Leviticus 19:18; Romans 13:9; Galatians 5:14
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