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brrgilbert
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Location: Nampa, Idaho
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I am beginning to understand that it is only in the feeling of love that we are able to share it with others. Truly, then, we must love ourselves before we can love another . . . stated in another way: God's love for us must be manifested and revealed to us as a seed before it can grow up within us as a tree of life; blessing the lives of others. We love Him because He first loved us.
I was traveling from Tulsa, Oklahoma on a home bound flight to Salt Lake City. I had my scriptures opened and was reading the New Testament. A young lady across the isle identified herself as a student of Oral Roberts University and was wondering what I was reading in particular. I replied that I was reading the Savior's simile, "Ye are the salt of the earth . . ." She smiled and asked me the question, "Do you know what is unique about salt?" I hesitated and meditated and gave my thoughts; something about seasoning. She replied, "Salt makes you thirsty." Immediately I realized her insight, for which I remain appreciative. We are the salt of the earth . . . by our examples we can cause others to be thirsty for that which we have or are. This helps me to realize that it is only by reflecting the Savior's love that we can allow Him to draw people onto Himself. Love is the greatest gift that we can receive and thereby share. It is the only one which will allow us to quench thirst, ours or that of another. I have much to learn about this greatest attribute. I remain thirsty. Sometimes I am a sponge. I find myself drawn to the fountain of living water; I've identified the tree of life.
"I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."
The Little Prince by St. Exupery
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