{"id":412,"date":"2009-12-07T10:56:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T10:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/12\/give-a-gift-of-love.html"},"modified":"2009-12-07T10:56:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T10:56:16","slug":"give-a-gift-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/12\/give-a-gift-of-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Give a Gift of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s the Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa season, and it&#8217;s traditional to give gifts.&nbsp; So I too am thinking of&nbsp; &#8220;what to buy, what to give.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year, as it&#8217;s still an era of the necessity of mindful money, as it&#8217;s still a bit scarce &#8211; I am not spending nearly as much on material gifts as in the past.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I want to give a much more precious gift &#8211; the gift of love.&nbsp; These are some ways I am giving love, increasing love, and receiving love from others and from God.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instead of instantly reacting to things I hear that I don&#8217;t agree with, I&#8217;m stopping, holding my reaction, and considering other points-of-view.<\/li>\n<li>Rather than get into an argument, I am trying my best to go to a place of love in me, instead of defending myself, or explaining, or fussing.<\/li>\n<li>If I feel fear or anxiety of any kind, such as fear of the future or old patterns of fear-based beliefs that are programmed in me &#8211; I mentally and emotionally luxuriously bathe them in love.&nbsp; I allow myself some prayer time, and feel God&#8217;s love.<\/li>\n<li>Most of all, I take time to feel the gifts that God gives me all the time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is love that is behind the tradition of gift-giving.&nbsp; It is love that celebrates the birth of God appearing on earth.&nbsp; It is love that will bring us through any dark or difficult freezes of winter.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s the Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa season, and it&#8217;s traditional to give gifts.&nbsp; So I too am thinking of&nbsp; &#8220;what to buy, what to give.&#8221; This year, as it&#8217;s still an era of the necessity of mindful money, as it&#8217;s still a bit scarce &#8211; I am not spending nearly as much on material gifts&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,10,14,5,13,17,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness","category-health","category-lifestyles","category-love","category-prayers","category-relationships","category-religion","category-spirituality","category-wellness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Give a Gift of Love - Dr. Norris J. 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