February: The gift of health through Love

The gift of love

I love February!  It is the month that holds my most favorite holiday of all, Valentines Day!  I have always loved Valentines Day!  From  hearts and roses to the beautiful colors of pink, red, white and cream I love everything that goes along with the wonderful day of love, February 14. 

I remember as a little girl hand-making my own Valentine cards with red and pink construction paper and pasting them on dainty white doilies. I would anxiously wait to put them in my classmates hand covered cigar boxes made to be a Valentine mailbox.  I of course was always in hopes that the right boy would put a special one in mine.  My how nothing has changed!  I still look  for that special card to come my way!

I love Valentines Day so much that I chose that as my special day to marry the love of my life Jim Acuff  last year 2009!  He has been a dream come true for me in sharing true love with and has always put the right card in my Valentine box since we met! 

So what about true love?  How does that affect a person and their health?  I for one know that love has been a word and an experience that I continue to understand with age and situations.  When my life seems to be most complete it has been when I have felt most comfortable with myself.  Loving  and accepting myself  for who and why I am the way that I am has been a part of the understanding of love for me.  I can not truly understand others until I understand and accept myself.

One thing I have come to understand is that unless I love myself unconditionally and love others unconditionally I will never be able to  be free in my life.  Freedom brings great peace and joy and in turn good health.  Loving those around you with no hidden agendas or conditions is very valuable in finding true love.  That is tough at times when conditions present things in a manner that we do not like or do not agree with.    I know how hard it is when I want to have things my way.  It is not in God’s plan for us to have everything our way.  God wants us to love one another.  It is stated in John 13:34 when Christ said “a new command  I give you:  to love one another.  As I have loved you, so must you love one another”.  I don’t question it anymore.  I just do it.  Fighting inside my mind sets boundaries for myself and my life.  Letting love work through loving everyone unconditionally makes life work for me and it is healthy!

Are you happy with yourself?  Have you tried to control a situation in your life to have it your way or do you love ALL unconditionally enough to let things and life play themselves out and continue to love deep and unconditional?  If not then start with you.  Start with what is inside first.  Ask for someone to forgive you and then start to love with no conditions attached.  See how freedom will arrive on the scene and your love life will being to grow quickly and your health will too!   Until next time let me go begin the Valentine decorating!  Let the party begin!  Happy LOVE month to all!