Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do things beautifully.
"The sight of her tears grieved me; but I soon realised that she was weeping over her failure, without caring about what was happening inside me ... We might still have come to an understanding if, instead of asking everybody to pray for my soul, she had given me a little confidence and sympathy. I know now what prevented her from doing so: she had too much to pay back, too many wounds to salve, to put herself in another's place. In actual doing she made every sacrifice, but her feelings did not take her out of herself. Besides, how could she have tried to understand me since she avoided looking into her own heart? As for discovering an attitude that would not have set us apart, nothing in her life had ever prepared her for such a thing: the unexpected sent her into a panic, because she had been taught never to think, act or feel except in a ready-made framework."
— Simone de Beauvoir. A Very Easy Death. Penguin Books. London. 1982. p. 60.
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence” (The Sunday Telegraph).
LOVE IS IN THE DETAILS!!!
When you fill your roles, complete tasks, perform your job duties, etc. are you moved with compassion? Do you function out of your heart or head? What is in your heart? Consider this statement from the excerpt above, "how could she have tried to understand me since she avoided looking into her own heart?"
Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Mark 1:41 NJKV
My only thought for today we all must always look at our own heart before undertaking any endeavor! Count up the Costs Why do anything if you can't do it with all your heart!
God is Love and if He is not the desire of your heart I dare to say you are unable to be moved by real compassion/love. Only if we are transformed/reborn in His Spirit can we truly be moved by LOVE. Only when we stop and look at our own hearts and see the darkness that lives there can we allow the Light of God to come in and give us a clean heart and renew within us a right spirit.
My prayer : Lord give me your heart so that ALL I do is from a place of compassion and love, your love, true love for what you love-YOUR CREATION!!
Lord you sent your Son to show me the way and I want to always be willing to see others WHOLE and HEALED. My desire is for you to manifest in me and then through me and Father you give us the desires of our heart-You have placed this desire within me and you will bring it to fruition! AMEN
LOVE IS IN THE DETAILS!!!