Love Never Fails

Our cat, Toby, is a big suck. You would have never have known it ten years ago. Even six years ago, he wasn’t so nice. We had another cat, Timmie, at that time and he was a bit of a bully. If it hadn’t been for our dog, Sarah, sticking up for Timmie, Toby would have had total domination.

First Sarah died, then Timmie. As time went on, Toby became more and more friendly. Why? Perhaps he had less competition and felt less threatened. Another reason was that we just kept loving this cat no matter what. As time went on, our love broke down his resistance.

As the saying goes, love never fails. Those are powerful words, the strongest being the word never.

Why does love never fail? I think that part of it is what the alternative does to you and not the other person. The other person may not respond to my love, but if my heart is filled with hate, what does that say about my life? Do I really want to walk around with all of this negative baggage or do I want to feel positive?

I remember trying to teach two cats in Alberta not to climb up on the screen door and wreck it. I would put them up on the screen and tap them gently to give them the idea that when they were on the screen, it would be uncomfortable. One of them got the idea quite clearly. The other one wasn’t very intelligent. When I put him on the screen and started tapping him, he started purring. Here I was making him feel uncomfortable and he was returning love. I couldn’t take it. I started sobbing.

I go back to my point of making sure your heart is filled with love instead of hate. If you want the best life you can have, do you want bitterness or happiness in your soul?