--ABOVE ALL / LOVE ~~

--"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins."
---[1 Peter 4:8 / NIV] -- angelwing

---"THE house looks nice Mom," I said. I sat down on the couch in my parents' new living room.

"Really?" my mom asked. Her eyes were earnest. It had been difficult for her to leave her 1860s home and move to a modern house.

"This room looks nothing like the listing pictures. You've put your mark on it."

I looked around me. The walls were lined with bookshelves. Potted ferns tempered the trendy fireplace. The old grandfather clock ticked in a new corner.
"The one thing that feels out of place is the TV," I said. My eyes were drawn to the massive flat-screen mounted on the wall--a remnant of the home's previous owners. Its dark screen was dominating.

"That's the next thing to go," my mom said. "I've never had a TV in my living room. I want the focus of the room to be people, not a television."
Here words hit me hard. My mom centered her home on people. More than that, she focused her life on sharing Christ's love with others.

Sitting in her living room, I questioned the focus of my own life. I'd spent a lot of my time wrapped up in my own wants and concerns. My education. My career. My aspirations.

I wanted to mirror my mom's love for others. I wanted to mirror love for Christ.

So I made a silent promise to myself to shift my focus from myself to others.
"I'm glad you think the house is coming together," my mom said.

It was. Because her focus was in the right place. Christ.

--"Lord, help me to use my life to share Your love with others. I pray You will always be glorified in me, Jesus."
--Guideposts/LE~
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Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]