love as if your life depended on it...because it does

When asked which is the greatest commandment, we are told that it revolves around LOVE. We are instructed to Love the Lord our God and love others. Hersh gives incredible insight to the complexities of how to truly love without regret or limitation and uses scripture to help us understand in a humbling manner.

She discusses the importance of taking care of ourselves so that we may best represent the love of Christ to others and to love with full abandon, recognizing our longings as healthy and God-given. Many of us come to dislike the longings we have because they hurt or they make us unhappy but Hersh encourages readers to pray and be thankful for the longings, sensing where our focus is to fulfill them. For if we think about it, longings give us the passion to fulfill our dreams and give us the motivation to love as described in 1 Corinthians.

Love never gives up.

Love cares more for others than for self.

Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.

Love doesn't strut,

Doesn't have a swelled head,

Doesn't force itself on others,

Isn't always "me first,"

Doesn't fly off the handle,

Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,

Doesn't revel when others grovel,

Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,

Puts up with anything,

Trusts God always,

Always looks for the best,

Never looks back,

But keeps going to the end.