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Living in kindness makes love enjoyable. In our desire to make the person or people we love happy, we do things they like or will enjoy. I once saw a bookmark imprinted with a statement that said, “Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.” Love is all about looking for opportunity to show kindness to others. Every small act of kindness can make a great impact in the lives of many people.
Loving is commitment. Love demands commitment. Changes in people’s lives, circumstances, situations, feelings, opinions, and emotions can bring challenges to their commitment to love.
We should understand that commitment is the act of binding oneself to a course of action in fulfillment of the demands inherent in expressing our love. It is easy to give up when you don’t have commitment. You can’t stay long without it.
Our challenge will always be our ability to sustain our commitment. We should always choose to bring it to a higher level as our love grows.
Learning to trust is also an important quality of love. I believe that having trust means to have confidence, faith, or hope in someone you love. It is also confidence in the integrity and honesty of the person you love.
Trust is a necessary ingredient of a healthy relationship. The absence of such confidence can create misunderstanding. To have trust in other people includes opening yourself to them and believing that they will not take advantage of you.
Having trust means that you are willing to expose your vulnerabilities without any reservations. A healthy relationship is built when both parties display this level of trust to each other. When you start showing trust for others, you will certainly reap trust from them — except for those who are in the business of taking advantage of others. In a marital relationship, trust is vital to its stability.
When you want to express your love to the less fortunate, you may choose to channel it through a charitable institution because you trust them to faithfully deliver your gift to the recipient.
When you trust others, their natural response is to be true to you. Yes, it is true that some people are superficial, but don’t worry—they will reap the same if they don’t realize your sincerity in trusting them.
As Ernest Hemingway said, “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
Leaning on humility preserves the genuineness of your love. It has been said that love is not boastful. If you carry humility in your heart, you will always think of others’ welfare and be willing to give up your own rights for their benefit. Humility means not seeking credit for yourself, but being grateful for the opportunity to express your love and make other people happy.
“Humility is the quality of being modest, reverential, even obsequiously submissive, and never being arrogant, contemptuous, rude or self-aggrandizing.”
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