Love Serving Love Torrent
Imke Loyack
When starting a new game, the score is technically love-all or zero to zero. However, players do not report the score of the current game when a new game starts. Instead, the player serving will say the score in games for the current set.
Through our program, not only will the kids learn tennis and pickleball, but they will be exercising, learning nutrition, gaining life skills, and becoming a part of a place where they belong and they matter. In a culture that has suffered much, we love much. We are committed to health & wellness as well as preserving native identity and culture.
Paul corrects this erroneous thinking and reminds them what the true reason for the spiritual freedom Christ had died for: they are free so that they may be able to serve others in love! Paul teaches the Corinthians a similar message in 1 Corinthians 12. In this text, he explains that they all have gifts given by the Spirit but these gifts are given to serve the common good. All we have been given through the Spirit of God is not for us to hold onto for our own profit.
If we spent our days just focused on getting just one of these aspects right in our lives, we could exhaust ourselves pretty quickly. Then how do we accomplish this impossible task of letting love drive our service?
Dear Lord,
I need the power of your Holy Spirit in my life! It is only through you that I have the ability to love and serve those around me. Help me to remember to give thanks for all you have given me. Guide me in my journey to prioritize rest, as your word has instructed me to practice Sabbath. Help me discover the gifts you have given me and use them well. By your grace bring others into my life that will encourage me when I start feeling weary. More than anything, thank you Lord, for allowing me to be your hands and feet to the world.
NORTHBROOK, Ill., Aug. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Barilla, the world's leading pasta maker who's helped gather people around the table for 145 years, believes sharing a quality pasta dish together is the ultimate sign of love. This August, Barilla and their longstanding partner, tennis phenom, Coco Gauff, will spread love nationwide with Barilla pasta during America's biggest tennis tournament.
In tennis, love means zero, which is the perfect complement to Barilla's Chickpea and Red Lentil pastas, which are made with one ingredient and zero additives. During the opening days of the tennis tournament, when Coco is serving love, Barilla will serve love by giving away pasta meal kits packed with everything a pasta enthusiast needs to enjoy a delicious, protein-rich meal.
Be sure to follow @BarillaUS and @CocoGauff on Instagram as America's biggest tournament gets underway. And to serve even more love, Barilla will be making a donation to Food Bank For New York City after the tournament as well.
Since 1987, a historical archive has been collecting and preserving the company's 145-year history, now a resource open to all via the portal-museum www.archiviostoricobarilla.com. For further information, visit: www.barillagroup.com; Twitter: @barillagroup; LinkedIn: Barilla Group; Instagram: @barillapeople.
FEMA employees are proud to serve the nation by helping people before, during and after disasters. This Public Service Recognition Week, we are taking time to honor FEMA employees who embody our mission and have committed themselves to serving the public.
A few employees have been with the agency for 30 years or more. They have played significant roles in shaping the way the agency operates today. One of these long-serving employees is Jason Nelson who works as the Chief of the Disaster Response & Recovery Branch in the Congressional Affairs Division of the Office of External Affairs. He has been with FEMA since 1991.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who addressed the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, O Lord, my strength.
And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
Wow. These words that the Lord spoke in the Gospel of John can be so convicting and hard to hear at times. Jesus is asking us to love one another as He has loved us. Think about that for a moment. Jesus loved us so much that He endured suffering after suffering for our sake. Jesus died on the cross out of love for us. That is the kind of love He is asking us to have for one another. This love that we are being called to have is a self-giving love and not a self-serving love.
So whether we are called to marriage, a religious vocation, or singlehood, we are called to live a life that is based on self-giving love. This love will not be easy! The Lord does not call us to a life of comfort, though; He calls us to live a life that will one day bring us to heaven. Take heart children of God, the Lord is calling us to a life of difficulty, but in these moments of suffering and stretching of our hearts, we can fully enter into the mystery and joys of the resurrection.
The day was to serve those who are experiencing homelessness. We walked over and invited people living in the encampment in front of the Broward County Library to the event. Our goal was to serve love and give them a day where they could eat, have fun and take refreshing showers.
We provided 40 showers, 68 haircuts, 150+ hot meals, and 115 servings of ice cream. If you could have seen their faces when they heard they were getting ice cream! Each guest also received a new t-shirt, new undergarments, a hygiene bag and a pair of Bombas socks.
Kathy Guerrero, the team leader from Vertical Church, did a great job of organizing the volunteers and we thank her. It was awesome to see the community, Vertical Church, First United Methodist Church and Showering Love come together to serve love.
Thank you to all the volunteers who came out on this scorching hot day and made the day possible. Emilio took off his shoes and donated them to a guest in the name of love. This day was all about serving love to those that need it the most. The First United Methodist Church was so gracious in allowing us to use their parking lot.
Throughout out the day, there was a lot of love given and received. At the end of every event, we make a circle, hold hands and share our experience of the day. The words shared were humble, grateful and our emotions were overflowing with love.
She finds it can be useful for people to examine how upbringing, attachment style, and experiences with early caregivers may have shaped their love language so they can see where the other person is coming from.
"Discussing the love languages is an opportunity to be vulnerable with each other, as it allows us to go beyond simply discussing how we want things to be executed in the relationship but also how we came to translate that act of service equals being loved," she says.
Colaku says it is highly beneficial to explore and inquire into what they're specifically looking for. "Be mindful and recognize what your partner states that they appreciate, what they don't enjoy doing, as well as observing how they live their daily life in action."
"Express your appreciation for their acts of service toward you. Even if their love language is not words of affirmation, showing their actions are noticed and appreciation goes a long way," she says. It's always good to practice showing our partner love in a multitude of ways.
Frequent communication is essential so couples aren't practicing the love languages theory robotically to gain affection but rather using it for what it's intended to be: a jumping-off point to develop a deeper curiosity with each other.
By paying attention to each other's love language and supplying your partner with plenty of acts of service, these mundane obligations and pesky household chores can be transformed into a powerful demonstration of love.
Love as a word for a score of zero has been used in the sport of tennis since the late 1800s. Frankly, how love became a word for zero is baffling, but so is the overall scoring system for tennis. The points progress from love to 15, 30, and 40, which are relatively equivalent to 0,1, 2, and 3 in points per game. For example, if the player serving wins the first point of a game, then the score is "15 - love" or "fifteen (to) love" in their favor. Etymologists aren't exactly sure how love came to mean "zero," but, as we said, there are theories. (As for the point system, we're still scratching our heads about the random 40; 15 to 30 begins a pattern that 40 doesn't follow.)
Another, and far more accepted, theory is that this sense of love comes from the expression "to play for love." The idea is that a person who fails to make any points doesn't care because they are playing for love of the game, rather than playing to win (which, really, every player is trying to do but when you can't get it together at least show good sportsmanship and play for love) or playing for monetary stakes. In other words, playing on the court, challenging yourself, is the reason for still playing despite having the score of love. And to players of tennis, the sport can be truly a "labor of love," an expression which implies an undertaking performed out of love for the work itself without consideration of benefit or reward. A similar idea is found in the origin of the word amateur, which can refer to a person who does something strictly for love; the word comes from the Latin word amare, meaning "to love."
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