The Family Is The Laboratory of Love
The Laboratory of Love. The family. Those closest to us. They are a gift for us. The family is where we learn how to love. Our most important task in this life. I study near death experiences because they are fascinating to me. They also reinforce the principles that Jesus was preaching and teaching two thousand years ago.
The family is the classroom of love. The laboratory of love. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we can move towards our authentic self. The self we were created to be. Here is an excerpt from “Brave The Wave”,
In his book (4) Life after Life, Dr. Raymond Moody reports this:
Some of those I interviewed claim that, while they cannot adequately explain it, everything they had ever done was there in this review (what has been described as a life review), from the most insignificant to the most meaningful. Others explain that what they saw were mainly highlights of their lives. Some people characterize this as an educational effort on the part of the being of light. As they witness the display (of their life review), the beings seem to stress the importance of two things in life: learning to love other people and acquiring knowledge.[i]
This was consistent with what I was learning about our unique purpose in this life based on our gifts and talents. What those talents are and how they’re to be used.
The teachings of Jesus were saying essentially the exact same thing:
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. (John 15:9-12 NLT)
The reality is that we’re on this planet to learn to love others. Another common question people report being asked by the “being of light” was this: “What do you have to show me that you’ve done with your life?” In Lessons from the Light, Dr. Kenneth Ring writes,
The Light seems to be telling us, each of us, that we have a unique gift, an offering to make to the world, and that our happiness and the world’s are both served when we live in such a way as to realize that gift, which is no less than our purpose in life.[ii]
Boom. There it is. “Our happiness and the world’s are both served.”
[i] Moody, Life After Life, 57.
[ii] Kenneth Ring, Lessons from the Light (Needham, MA: Moment Point Press, 2006), 50.
Learning How to Love
We don’t even think about it. You might say we take it for granted. Learn how to love ? We may say, “we don’t have to learn how to love, it comes naturally.” Does it? Learning how to love begins in the family. The laboratory of love. Those closest to us are gifts. We also learn how to forgive and ask for forgiveness. We begin to learn how to serve in the laboratory of love.
Learning to love and serve others is the focus of this life. It all starts in the classroom of love. The laboratory of love.
“If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.”
1 Corinthians 13:2 NLT
How often do we think about learning how to love? How often do we say, “this day, I am going to focus on loving others.”
As Christian believers, we are in the love business. Business should be booming.