Loving people is a lot of work. There, I said it. But now let me explain what I mean. Loving people ISN'T hard. Because loving people is the natural effect of what's inside us coming out. Love is our new (true) nature. What I mean is... people give love in lots of different ways. And, equally if not more importantly, people receive love in lots of different ways. For example (and you know I'm using myself as an example), I love chocolate. So if someone gives me chocolate... I feel pretty good about that. But there are people out there who don't like chocolate (shocking, I know). So giving them the same kind of love that you give me won't work. You have to put in the effort to get to know people. To build relationships. But, as always, it all starts with our relationship with God. Look at 2 Peter 1:3 in the Message Bible, "Everyting that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received!" Everything we need... we already have. And we "get," or experience, what we already have by finding out what we already have. By getting to know Jesus. Because Jesus is our true self. The inner man. The hidden man of the heart. God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in OUR flesh. Love in OUR body. When we get to know God, we get to know ourselves. When we get to know Him as loving heavenly Father, we get to know ourselves as His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. And when we know ourselves... we can begin to know each other. Know as we are known. Know each other in love. Know HOW to love each other. That's what a real, true relationship is all about. Its not about getting from others. Or, worse yet, taking from each other. Its about giving to each other. Seeing a need and meeting it. And, like the chocolate I mentioned earlier, when we understand each other we can go past just meeting needs and we can fill some wants. Now, obviously, needs are more important than wants. But when you start to get deep with someone, that's when you can really make an impact. Knowing what will really bring a smile to their face. Knowing someone personally and intimately. But, like I said to open this bad boy, that can take a lot of work. You have to be willing to put the effort in. And I'm not talking about works and labor. I'm not talking about trying to earn anything from God (or anybody else). I'm simply talking about how love IS the maximum effort. Its giving everything you have and everything you are. Giving your all. Putting in that effort to get to know someone. So that you CAN see a need and so that you CAN meet that need. Faith works when you do. When you act in love. You can't walk by faith unless you're walking. Charity is love in action. And the action of love is only effective when you know who you're loving. When you know how they need to be loved. Its a lot of work. Yes. But its worth it. PEOPLE are worth it. Loving people is worth it!

Here's the question: "This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?" (Galatians 3:2). And here's the answer: "Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect in the flesh?" (Galatians 3:3). Its all about faith. Its all about the Spirit. Knowing and believing the truth. Listen, our relationship with God--knowing Him as loving heavenly Father and ourselves as His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased--is the gift of God. And you can't earn a gift. When you try to earn a gift, you end up robbing yourself of that selfsame gift. Because, one more time, you can't earn a gift. And because we have already been given the gift. We already have it. So if we're running around trying to make perfect through the flesh what was started in the Spirit... we're missing out on experiencing and enjoying what we've already got. And, see, the way to experience and enjoy what we've already got... is to know and believe that we've already got it. Faith works because everything works by faith. Look at Galatians 5:6, "For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love." Its not about works of the flesh. Its not about circumcision or uncircumcision. Its not about what you do. Its about who you are. Believing the truth that says, "God is love and He loves you." Believing the truth that He is your Father and you are His Son. When you know who you are, everything else flows from that identity. Everything works by faith. Even love. You can't give what you don't have. And you can only give what you do have. You have to know and believe that you have love--that you are loved--in order to love. Because love is giving. We love because He first loved us. We love Him (back) by loving each other. Receiving and releasing His love. Filling ourselves to overflowing with what He has already filled us with. Not trying to get anything, but giving what we've got. Sharing it. And, in that way, experiencing it. You can't receive something by works of the Law. That's earning. And what you earn is wages. And when the Bible talks about wages it says, "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 6:23). Wages... no good. Gift? Receive it and release it. Receive it BY releasing it. Release it by receiving it. Fill yourself to overflowing with what you've already been filled with... by giving it away. Don't be foolish. Don't rob yourself of what you have by trying to earn it. Don't try get anything. Just give what you've got. By knowing what you've got. By being who you are. You don't have to try really hard to love people. You just have to know that God loves you. Let Him love the hell out of you. And love Him back by loving the hell out of the people you come into contact with. You don't have to work for it. But, as I'm going to get into tomorrow, sometimes you do have to work AT it. It takes effort. Putting in the time to get to know people and build relationships. Different people have different needs. And while love is the answer, knowing HOW to love sometimes takes a little work.

Faith works when you do. Because faith without works is dead. Charity is love in action. And its not about talking the talk. Its about walking the walk. Don't sing it. Bring it. Don't talk about it. Be about it. I believe that love is maximum effort. Both because it the most powerful thing you can do, and because when you do it you give everything you have and everything you are. But that's the thing... love is giving. You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving. So in order for your faith to really be faith... it has to manifest in actions. I will show you my faith BY my works. Right? Because what you do flows from what you believe. What you believe is inside WILL come out. It has to. Its too big to stay inside. Whether what you believe is good, bad, or ugly. If you believe it--either the lie of the world or the report of the Lord--it will manifest in your life. If you believe things are bad and getting worse... that's what you'll experience. But if you believe things are good and getting better... that's what you'll experience. Here's what I'm trying to say: Be the change you want to see in the world. If you want something different... do something different. If you're not happy, do something about it. What's that old saying? If you can't accept something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude about it. Life is like ten percent what happens to you and ninty percent how you react to it. And what I'm trying to say is: You don't always have to react. You can be proactive. You can be a thermostat instead of a thermometer. You don't have to take the temperature. You can set the temperature. Look at Hebrews 12:29, "For our God is a consuming fire." And the fire in you is ALWAYS hotter than the fire you're in. Because God IS the fire. LOVE is the fire. And there's nothing hotter. God is all-powerful. Which is to say, LOVE is all-powerful. Which doesn't mean MOST powerful. It means love has ALL of the power. Love IS all of the power. Nothing can stand against love. Nothing can defeat love. Love never fails... because love endures. Love stands strong when all else fails. Love works in every situation. Love is the answer. The solution to every problem. There's never a situation that wouldn't be helped by a big helping of love. Love lights the way. It (HE) lets us see clearly. And when we can see things as they truly are, that's when we can be who we really are. What you see is what you be. What you believe is what you do. If you believe you are not loved, you will do everything in your power to get what you think you don't have. But if you believe you ARE loved... you will do what you do BECAUSE of that love. Either you think you don't have it and you try to get it... or you know you have it and you give it away. Faith works when you do. In order to walk by faith you have to walk. Rest is not inactivity. Rest is Holy Spirit directed activity. Doing what you do because its in your heart to do it. Because love made you do it. That's what it means for Christ's love to control us--it means we do what we do because of love. For love. By love. In love. We have faith in God--in love--and then that love that's inside us comes out in every move we make and every breath we take.

There have been two phrases in my head over the last little while, and they both pretty much mean the same thing. "Don't sing it... bring it." That's from a pro wrestler. And, "Don't talk about it, BE about it." I don't know where I picked that one up from. But like I said, basically the same thing. Now let me say it another, Biblical way: "Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works" (James 2:17-18). Charity is love IN ACTION. And, really, since love is giving... you can't really love someone without works. Now, don't get it twisted. PLEASE don't get it twisted. I'm not talking about works and labor. I'm not talking about trying to earn something by the sweat of your brow. I'm not talking about religious calesthenics. I'm not talking about jumping through hoops in order to be a "good" Christian. Labor and works don't work. Its not about getting. Again, love IS giving. You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving. What I'm trying to say is, well, let me quote another memory verse, "Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly" (Matthew 6:16-18). Don't talk about it... be about it. Don't sing it... bring it. Put your money where your mouth is. Do what needs to be done without making a big fuss about it. If all you want is for someone to acknowledge you... well, I think there are better ways to go about that than to talk about all the great things you're planning to do. Let me use myself as an example. I always try to use myself so nobody gets offended. I'm a writer. But very rarely do I ever tell anybody what I'm working on. Usually I don't even tell people I'm a writer, but that's because I just don't like talking about myself. The reason I don't generally tell people what I working on is because until I've actually written it... there isn't really anything to talk about. And, I mean, sometimes I'll talk it out with someone. If I need ideas, or if I'm not sure about whether something works. Things like that. Technical matters. But as far as, like, bragging about all the stuff I haven't written yet? Nah. Hard pass on that one. Writers write. Once I've done something, that's the time to put it out there. Don't they said the road to hell is paved with good intentions? Don't they say there is more lost by no decision than bad decision? So instead of telling people what you think you're gonna do... just do it. Let your actions speak for themselves. I will shew thee my faith by my works. Actions speak louder than words anyway, right? Faith works when you walk by faith. When you let what inside come out. When the idea of love becomes the action of charity. Love is the greatest (really, the only) power in the world. But unless you put it into action... it really isn't helping anybody. So don't sing it. Bring it. Don't talk about it. Be about it!

To me, the dove is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Ghost that descended upon Jesus when He was baptized. The dove that Noah released from the ark that flew all the way to that water baptism. And when we understand that we have doves' eyes... when we see things through the lens of love... then we see things as they really are. We see that not only do we have doves' eyes... but we ARE doves! We aren't just loved... we are LOVE. And when we understand that we are loved (that we are love)... that's when we CAN love. You can't give what you don't have. And you can only give what you do have. We love... because He first loved us. God supplies us with everything He requires of us. And I know this is going to mix my metaphor a little bit, but when we rise with the wings of a dove it is almost like a phoenix rising from the ashes. Look at Psalm 68:13, "Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold." Though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we can fear no evil, because our God is with us. Always. No matter what. Let me say it another way, "If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, though art there" (Psalm 139:8). And I'm not even going to get into what it means that God is in hell... but it does kind of shoot a hole in the idea that hell is where God sends people in order for them to be without Him. But like I said, I'm not going there today. Today I just want to focus on the fact--the truth--that God (love) is always with us. He keeps us from falling. But, get this, if we DO stumble and fall, we are still covered with silver and gold. We ARE the righteousness of God in Christ. And when we mess up, when we make mistakes, we are STILL the righteousness of God in Christ. Let me say it again as strongly as I can: We are not just loved... we ARE love. That's not just what we do. That's who we are. Its our nature. Rising up out of the gutter, rising up on the wings of a dove, that's simply seeing things as they truly are. Seeing that all things are under our feet. Not that we need to overcome... but that we--in Him--have already overcome. Jesus said, "These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). And notice, He didn't say, "You can overcome the world." He said, "I have overcome the world." That's where our good cheer comes from. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Because that's where grace is. That's WHO grace is. So when we fall, when we lie among the pots, when we walk through the valley... we can be of good cheer. Because Jesus did everything that needed to be done. He took care of it. He finished the work. HE lifts us up. Because if we are the dove, its only because HE is the dove. He is God in the flesh. Love in the body. God in OUR flesh. Love in OUR body. And the dove, the Spirit of truth, is what allows--equips and empowers--us to receive that glorious truth; God is love and He loves you. As He is, so are we in this world. We fly, because He flaps His doves' wings!

Seeing with doves' eyes... seeing things through the Holy Spirit... seeing things through the lense of love... is what equips and empowers us to be who we really are. The dove. The Holy Spirit. Jesus. God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in OUR flesh. Love in OUR body. The transformation--or conformation--that took place on the cross is activated, if I can say it that way, by our faith. Look at Romans 8:29, "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." See, first we were made in His image. But we didn't know what that image was. We didn't know what we looked like because we didn't know what HE looked like. It was dark, and we were void and without form. But then God spoke. He said, "Let there be light." And there was light. We could see clearly. We--like Noah--found grace in His eyes. We saw Him as He is, and we began to understand that as He is, so are we in this world. He is the firstborn of many brethren. We are His brethren. He is the head and we are the body. He lives in us. We live in Him. Love lives in us. We live in love. And when we live IN love, we live OUT love. When we BREATHE in love... we can breathe out love. We can love each other (and ourselves) with every move we make and every breath we take. We can hear the words of our heavenly Father, and we can know that we are His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. And I'm telling you, the affirmation of the Father empowers the Son. Jesus said He doesn't do anything unless He sees the Father do it. He doesn't say anything unless He hears the Father say it. And that's not about trying to walk in His foot steps. That's about faith. Because faith comes from hearing, and hearing from the Word (Jesus, love) of God. Because what you see is what you be. What you believe--either the report of the Lord of the lie of the world--is what manifests in your life. That's why the Holy Spirit--the dove--is so vitally important. He is the Spirit of truth that leads and guides us into all truth. When you know (and believe) the truth... you can straight up ignore the lie. You don't even have to fight it. You can just lay it aside. Lay aside the sin (unbelief) and the weight that so easily besets us. We don't have to get tripped up. And we don't have to get caught up trying to prove anything to anybody. Love speaks for itself (Himself). And if someone can't accept your love... shrug your shoulders and move on. I say this all the time: I'm not for everybody. And that's ok. All I need to do is let what's inside come out. All I need to do is fill myself to overflowing with what I've already been filled with. All I need to do is see things as they really are. Look with the doves' eyes and see myself (and everyone else) as doves. The light in me--the LOVE in me--responding to the light, the love, in you. That's what it means for the deep to call out to the deep. That's what it means to build relationships and connect on that true, real, Spiritual level. So first we see it, then we be it. And we see it when God--when LOVE--reveals Himself to us, and in us, and through us, and as us!

This is my favorite part. When I was studying Song of Solomon a while ago--feels like a long time ago--I saw something so cool. Ready? Ok. Song of Solomon 1:15 says, "Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes." So take what we've been building on. The dove is the Holy Spirit, right? So doves' eyes means seeing through the Holy Spirit! Seeing things the way God sees them. Seeing through the eyes of love! And, since we've been talking about Noah, don't ever forget where he found grace. "But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD" (Genesis 6:8). This is so important. What you see is what you be. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" (1 John 3:2). Because when we see Him... we see ourselves. And the only way to see Him clearly is to see Him with doves' eyes. To see Him through the Spirit. Now, watch this--because this is where it gets really exciting. In the first chapter of Song of Solomon we (the bride) are described as having doves' eyes. Fast forward to chapter 5. "I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night" (Song of Solomon 5:2). Did you catch that? The progression went from "you have doves' eyes" to "you are a dove." What we see... is what we be. When we begin to see things as they truly are--when Jesus appears (to us, and in us, and through us, and as us)--that's when we can BE who we really are. We ARE the Son(s) of God. And while we might not understand in fullness everything that that means... I believe we are figuring it out. Step by step. As we walk in love. As we let love lead the way. Lead and guide us into the truth that God is love and He loves you. Listen, you can't believe something that you don't know. Faith comes from hearing, and hearing from the Word of God. Which is Jesus. Which is love. One more time: Seeing is believing. When you look into God's eyes--by looking in the mirror--and find grace, that's when you can be graceful. When you start to discover what's really inside (by letting God reveal it to you... by letting God reveal HIMSELF to you) that's when what's really inside can (and will) come out. Naturally. A dove doesn't try really hard to be a dove. It just spreads its wings and flies. We don't have to try really hard to love people. Even the people who are "hard" to love. We just open our hearts and let love flow. In AND out. Receiving and releasing. Receiving BY releasing. Releasing by receiving. Filling ourselves to overflowing with what we've already been filled with. We have doves' eyes. We have the mind of Christ. We simply need to let the mind of Christ (that's already in us) BE in us. We simply have to look as He looks. See as He sees. And in seeing... be. Be who we really are. The dove. The Holy Spirit. Jesus. God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in OUR flesh. Love in OUR body!

This is a little bit more Scripture than I usually try to quote in a Rant, but I think its a good foundation for what I want to say going forward, "Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her and pulled her in unto him in the ark. And he stayed yet another seve days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more" (Genesis 8:8-12). There's a lot here, and I don't think I'm going to be able to dig into all of it. But I want to point out the olive leaf. Because olive oil is another picture of the Holy Spirit. So, in a sense, after the flood waters washed everything clean... the deep was calling out to the deep. The dove (the Holy Ghost) found an olive left (the Holy Spirit). Love feeds on love. What you feed is what will grow. And how you feed love is by loving. Loving God and loving people. Loving God BY loving people. And you can only do that when you let the Holy Spirit--the Spirit of truth that leads and guides us into all truth... the truth that God is love and He loves you--reveal God's love to you, and in you, and through you, and as you. Because that's what the Holy Spirit is--He is our love receptor. See, the Holy Spirit didn't turn us into something that God could all of a sudden love. He always has loved us and He always will love us. The Holy Spirit transformed us into something that could finally receive, and know, and believe, and release, and share and experience God's love! That's the power of the dove finding the olive branch. It gave Noah hope. Or, really, proof that what God has promised had come to pass. And look at this part, because I think this is great: "...and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more." The dove flew from Noah's hand all the way to Jesus as He rose out of the waters of baptism. It finally found a resting place. Jesus said, "...The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head" (Matthew 8:20). Now catch this: He IS the head. And WE are the body. The church is the place that He rests His head. And we are the church. The church is not just a building. The church is a people. Instead of focusing so much on GOING to church, we need to understand that wherever we go... we ARE the church. And He RESTS His head on us. That posture of rest that lets what's inside flow out. The dove landed on Jesus. He is the head, and we are the body. The dove landed on us, in a sense, if I can say it that way. And tomorrow we're going to get into my favorite part of this--the doves' eyes. And the dove herself. Its such an amazing picture of what I think I'm talking about. Such a cool progression. But for today: The dove found a place to land. To rest. To dwell. The Holy Spirit lives in us!

I've Ranted on some of this stuff before, I feel like, here and there. But I want to kind of dig into it. Because the dove is a very important picture in the Bible. And I guess we should just start kind of right where I left off in the last Rant series: "And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased" (Luke 3:22). So to me, any time we see the dove in Scripture its speaking of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spirit. The Spirit of truth that leads and guides us into all truth. The ultimate truth of the universe that God is love and He loves you. And that's what the voice from heaven said, "You are my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." I love you. I'm happy with you. Not because of what you do, but because of who you are. I always quote that old country song that says, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then... its a love without end. Amen." One time Logan asked me, "Daddy, why do you love me so much." And without even thinking, without even hesitating I said, "Because you're mine." That's it. Done deal. I love him because he's mine. God loves us... because He is our heavenly Father. Because we are His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. That's what the dove is about. And I think maybe tomorrow we're going to tie this appearance of the dove in with the one that Noah let go from the ark. But like I said, I want to kind of slow down and dig into it. And today I'm just trying to really hit home the fact that the dove is the Holy Spirit. Because that way, when we get to Song of Solomon and the doves' eyes... we'll know what we're talking about. Look at Psalm 55:6, "And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest." Flying away--to me--is the same thing as rising above. Its not about GETTING away. Its about being able to get through what you have to go through. Its about not being dragged down. And, like I always say, when God (when LOVE) is holding you up... nothing can drag you down. One of my favorite memory verses that I never hear preached, "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy" (Jude 1:24). All we ever seem to hear about is what to do after we fall. Like falling is a foregone conclusion. "I'm only human." As if that justifies us to be less than we're capable of being. And, listen, the just man falls seven times and rises every time. I'm not saying you shouldn't rise up if you do fall. I'm saying, you don't HAVE to fall. You can let Jesus keep you from falling. You can stand firm on the Rock and you don't have to be shaken. The wings of a dove can stabilize you. Keep you afloat. Because that's when (where) the truth is. Its in the dove. The Holy Spirit. Its in YOU. You fly away (rise above) and rest. Rest is so important. Because rest is not inactivity. Rest is Holy Spirit directed activity. When the dove flies, love reigns! The Holy Spirit directs you to love... by revealing the truth that you are loved. That you are love!

When you're settled, you're at rest. When you're planted on the rock you cannot be shaken. When you're moving and flowing and living in, and through, and because of, love you can truly experience the abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of God. Its all about love. God filled us with His love. And now we can fill ourselves to overflowing with the love that we've already been filled with. We don't have to run around like chickens with their heads cut off, looking for love in all the wrong places. We can go to the source. We can look inside. We can let what's inside come out. By knowing and believing that its in there. What's inside WILL come out. Its has to. Or, as I always say, what you believe is inside will come out. So its vitally important that we get that issue--the love issue--settled. That we really truly let God love us. That's the biggest difference Adam (the son of God) and Jesus (the beloved Son of God). Jesus knew who He was, and knew who His Father was. He let Himself be loved by God. Beloved. Be loved. Whereas Adam hid from the presence of God. He thought God was mad at Him and ran from God instead of running to Him. That's what you do when you're unsettled: Fight or flight. I believe that when someone is pushed they do one of two things. 1. Fall over. 2. Push back. And I don't think either one of those things is what we're really after. We shouldn't put people in that position. We shouldn't want them to either fall over or push back. We should want people to succeed. We should edify people. But, like I always say, you can't give what you don't have. If you're unsettled, you surely can't settle anybody else. A peacemaker can't make peace unless he has peace. You can't make something from nothing. Even God (who is love) can't make something from nothing. Everything that was made was made through Jesus. The Word of God. Love. He created us from love in order for us to be loved. Did I already say its all about love? Because it is. That's what we need to settle in our spirits more than anything else. We need to have clear hearts and minds. Open hearts. Letting love in and out. Letting the love that IS in... out. The mind of Christ. Thinking the thoughts of God. Which, by the way, is "I love you." That's what He thinks. That's what He's about. He settled it in the very beginning when the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world. He settled it in fulness on the cross when He gave His life for us and as us. And now we can settle it. Now we can see the sacrifice that was made and believe that there is nothing--NOTHING--that our heavenly Father wouldn't do for us. When we were yet sinners (before the cross) He died for us. Gave us everything. Simply because He loves us and wanted us to have it. He wanted the best for us, so He gave the best to us. He settled the issue with the greatest expression of love anyone can give. And now we have something to believe in. Now we CAN know it and believe it. Now we CAN receive it and release it. So listen to that still, small voice that's deep inside. That voice that says, with every beat of God's heart in our chests, "I love you, I love you, I love you." And let that love flow out of you and into everybody you come into contact with!