The Real Power of Love
Nayada Cowherd, contributing editor
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Flowery and loving things. I find it interesting that I wanted to approach this piece writing about those things. About how great love feels. How love is really simple and easy. But really love is much bigger than any words we can use. What I know is love is hard. Love is tough. But I also know that love is an action word. It ebbs and it flows. And when you put your heart into action the rewards are wonderful.
We generally show our love with hugs and kisses and tender touches. While these gestures are important they aren’t the real actions that show our love.
The expectation is that we love our family unconditionally. Without hesitation. I teach my sons to love each other “because he is your brother.” But the reality is sometimes they just don’t like each other. Often our family members, including our children, do things we don’t like. This may spark us to act out in unaffectionate ways. As adults we can be more reasonable with our behavior but children sometimes don’t know how to contain themselves and control their unloving behavior. It’s our responsibility to live by example.
We show our children accomplishment by way of encouragement. Our children display honesty with exposure to truthfulness. We teach our children compassion with the usage of consideration. Our children learn love through our example. The thing is this can be contagious and it teaches them to treat everyone with love.
