How does one show love - by doing. Doing/Showing is active not a passive feeling or action. Loving means doing because you can't show love by keeping it in your head or keeping it in your heart. If love isn't shared then it isn't love, it's just a thought needing to be acted upon. Bad thing about that thought of love is that if it stays a thought then it means you never gave love which also means that you never receive love either. If we do not "do" love with people then what is it that we are doing with God?

He gives us exactly what we need when we need it. The rest doesn't really matter. What we don't have now we grow into because if we started out soaring right out of the nest we wouldn't have enough energy to make the duration. The goal for the duration is to make it through the pearly gates. Until we get there we just keep learning, accepting and being thankful for the gifts we are given along the way.

I think it is important to remember who is in control, who provides security in our lives. Really, we are in control of nothing of significance and everything significant is a gift or blessing of some sort - it is grace at work. The more we realize that we are not to live of ourselves but for Him the sooner we will figure out that is better to live in the world than to be of the world in a false sense of living (security).

We often say that odd saying "the gift of giving" and it isn't the easiest saying to understand. It is a gift to be able to give is what it is really saying. The ability to give to another is a gift in and of itself. When you realize that the "gift" is a gift from God then it has that much more significance. For we would not have that gift if it were not for God's grace. We must act responsibly and continue giving as he would give. For what we give eventually comes back to us - be it good or bad...