The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

Hey again bloggers! So, this will be my official first post of a book I have read in the library. Oh what a library it is, whether duanting to think I have already found the time to read all that information or that i have yet to apply it. Well, the book has many interesting points of view, and some I agree with and others I do not. Things from love to how we see the world. His point is that we not only look at the world but look at the lense at which we see the world. Obviously not our eye, but our mind. He calls them paradigms. How one person can view the same thing another is viewing and yet come to two different conclusions. Can both be right,wrong, or maybe one right and the other wrong? It would all depend upon their paradigms. There are many factors to a persons paradigm, whether it be environment,financial situation, or their upbringing. Hey! For the part about financial situation, it had me thinking "pair of dimes" for paradigms. lol And yes poverty or prosperity would affect a persons view on things. Especially money. Anyways, let me cut to the chase.

Stephen R. Covey said in his book that he agrees with the saying "love is a verb." And it had me thinking, is love really a verb? And gentlemen, please DO Be gentlemen and not relate that love to the OTHER love making. :P Now, love, how does one define it? Many people define it. In the bible God says that he is love, others say that love is hurt, and yet others say love is joyous. But love, a verb? One can come to the conclusion that the person who said this was saying that love is an action and yet I disagree. Love, the ever so sweet glaring into anothers eyes, the smile, the tear of joy falling downs ones cheek to the chin, seems more rather a feeling. And the action part of it, love not being a verb, would be expressing that love. You see, one can also consider a person saying "She loves him." You from that alone can say, "See it is a verb" or you can SHOVe it!. *Laughs* No, I am only kidding. But it some senses love IS a verb but is also a feelings. And that feeling needs to be expressed. And that expression is love. Let me make it more clear by connecting it with the idea of faith.

Faith, coming from many religions, is one way to view love. i will use the Bible as my reference. Somewhere in the bible(cant you tell, I havent picked one up in awhile? lol) it says that "Faith is dead without works" and in the same way is love. Someone could believe they are full of belief, and faith, but how can one truly be full of both and yet not act upon them? For them to be used, to be harnessed, to be given to the world, it has to be acted upon. Someone could say they believe that working out every day is good for you because Doctor Oz said so. See they have faith in Docotor Oz and beleive that he wouldnt lie to them. Now if they dont work out, it doent matter what they believe or whom or what they have faith in. if they arent going to the gym every day, it isnt helping them or anyone around them. And with love, it i the same. You can have love for someone or have faith in someone, but if you dont extend that faith in them, that trust, how will you truly be able to say you have faith in them? And with love, if you truly love someone, if it isnt expressed then what good does love do? For you, or for them? Love is like faith and both need to be expressed, and in doing so, will only strengthen your belief, in your relationships, in God, or in whatever or whomever you love. So do me a favor, love and love some more. But over all, express that love day in and day out.

And so this reader turned page after page and found a topic. It has now been expressed.