Sharing the Love
By Shelly Wilson
In the fall of 2011, I began using the phrase, “Sharing the Love” in my posts on Facebook. I use this phrase when I offer complementary readings and when I am expressing gratitude to others for sharing my pages.
However, this simple phrase means so much more. I believe it is an expression of love as well as an expression of gratitude that reaches and expands far greater than the Facebook platform. I always envision my hand outstretched, or my arms wrapped around another giving them a hug when I use this phrase.
I have asked my followers to write to me and tell me how they share the love with others. How do you share the love with others?
D.K.’s response ~ Most of my friends and family live a long way away from me so the main contact we have is through the computer. Usually after my girls go to school, I get on it. I always scroll down through the Facebook posts to see what everyone is doing and posting. If I see any that show me someone is having a bad day, I post a comment that lets them know I love them and hug them. I try very hard to make them feel like someone is there and to know that no matter how bad their day is, I am listening and a shoulder to lean on if they need it.
L.M.’s response ~ I like to do random acts of kindness that often take complete strangers by surprise and hopefully gives them a bit of light in their day. This may inspire them to “share their love” in whatever their love language is.
Today I gave a homemade jar of jam that I happened to have in my handbag to a young retail assistant when he commented that he loved homemade jam – he was very pleased! I have in the past taken an elderly lady home from a shopping centre who looked a bit overwhelmed, lent DVD’s to strangers that I’ve just met and taken excess garden produce to my children’s school for people to help themselves – just little things like that I enjoy doing.
J.V.’s response ~ I share the love more through helping animals. I am actively involved in rescue, and do whatever I can to help many animal rescue groups out as well as trapping and spaying and neutering abandoned cats and re-releasing them if they are too wild to re-home. I also help out a local homeless man and feed him whenever I see him and give him some money when I have extra. I recently added a woman who I knew from long ago to this list as she was clean and sober for 3 years and recently fell off the wagon and went back to drugs and who knows what else. I have been trying to find her as I have a bag of things to help her while she is trying to find her way home. I just need these people to know that their life has value. They just lost their way.
C.H.’s response ~ My way of sharing the love with others is I work with truck drivers who drive 18 wheelers every day. There is a lot of times when things go wrong for them and they are having a bad day. I try to cheer them up and take care of them with a smile and kind words to make their day. If I see people on the streets and in need I give what I can even if it’s food. I treat people the way I want to be treated.
J.P.’s response ~ I share love daily through conversation, actions, feelings, touch, sight, sound, awareness, compassion, communication, thoughts, God, Holy Spirit, and pure unconditional love.
J.K.’s response ~ I talk to everyone I meet. I just started a loving daily page, and I plan so much more because I’m filled with an abundance of love and I’m supposed to share it.
C.W.’s response ~ Sharing the love to me means caring about that person and giving them my unselfish self of support, care and listening. I share the love by putting my personal opinions and past experience aside to listen without judgment of the situation or person.
Every word, either spoken or written, needs to come from a place of positivity and support. If it doesn’t, it shouldn’t be spoken. I find it is more important to understand and care about someone or their message than it is to direct someone else’s life “the way you think it should be.”
B.P.’s response ~ I share the love by volunteering in my children’s classrooms. Boy, do those teachers need the help!
J’s response ~ Years ago, I used to listen to people’s feelings and dramas so that I would not have to share and express my own feelings. I would empathically feel their pain and despair to my own detriment. Due to an experience, I stopped listening and began talking, as in dumping my own feelings to whatever friend would listen. I did that for quite a few years. During the last 7 years though, I learned to share in more appropriate ways with people I love and feel safe with. I have realized that listening is one my gifts and that on some unconscious level, people are aware of that, and will share their feelings, fears and questions. Afterwards, I wonder how it all unfolded so spontaneously. I think what people intuit is that I am learning to listen with love – without judgment, no agenda, no attachment to giving any advice. I have also gotten better about loving myself, and setting boundaries toward people dumping their feelings constantly. That has really been the hardest part – setting boundaries. I am grateful to be the listener.
I invite you to bring this loving action into your daily lives by sharing the love with others. Realize that you are making a difference in the lives of others by being who you really are. Smiling, offering a kind word to another and holding the door open are effortless acts that have meaningful results. Both the recipient and the giver walk away from the interaction feeling lighter and loved. No gesture is too small nor goes unnoticed.
Simply sharing a smile or offering a kind word will not only raise the recipient’s vibration, but will also raise your vibration, as the giver or sender, as well. Practice compassion with everyone you come into contact with, including passersby in the store. Smile and say, “Hello!” It is really easy to do and both individuals will feel lighter and shine their own Lights brighter!
Know that you are making a difference in the lives of others by simply being YOU. No extra work is required. By setting an example and shining your Light bright, you allow others to do the same.
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About Shelly Intuitive Medium, Reiki Master and Spiritual Teacher Shelly Wilson would love to assist you on your spiritual journey. With respect, truth, integrity and love, Shelly honors your free will and recognizes that you are co-creating your reality with the Universe. She offers private readings, intuitive coaching, Reiki sessions, and teaches workshops. Shelly has two courses available through the DailyOM. http://shellyrwilson.com
