KEYS TO A HAPPY LIFE-CULTIVATEW LOVE FOR PEOPLE

CULTIVATE LOVE FOR PEOPLE

"People's feelings about their relationships have a bigger impact on their  overall satisfaction with their lives than do their job, income, community, or even physical health," says the book Social Psychology. Simply put, in order to be truly happy, humans need to give and receive love. "If I . . .do not have love, I am nothing," said a Bible writer. -1 Corinthians 13:2. 

It is never too late to cultivate love.  For example, Vanessa had an abusive, alcoholic father. When she was 14 years old, she ran away from home and stayed in foster homes, was well as in one bad shelter where she remembers begging God for help.  Then, perhaps and answer to her prayers, she was place with a family  who lived by the Bible principle that "love is patient and kind." (1 Corinthians 13:4) That environment, coupled with what she was  learning from her own study of the Bible, helped Vanessa to heal emotionally and progress mentally.  "At school, my grades went from D's and F's to A's and B's," she said.

Vanessa still bears emotional scars. Nevertheless, she is now a happily married  mother of two girls.

Next time: KEYS TO A HAPPY LIFE-BUILD RESILIENCE

From the Awake! magazine 2014