”Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.“
1 Peter 4:8 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.4.8.NLT
Love is a powerful force when read and acted upon from the Eternal Word! Love received seems to be double love. And, love given seems to triple love. WOW!
”A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.“
Ecclesiastes 4:12 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/ecc.4.12.NLT
Three spiritually is a Holy Number. It represents the Holy Trinity that makes up three divine beings, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
The second month of our year, February, often brings to mind; love month. Febtuary 14 many celebrate Valentine’s Day. Love! Some of us have Birthdays, or that of a family member or friend. This often prompts sharing love in words of praise and gifts of joy!
Contemplate love-to consider thoroughly; think fully or deeply about. 💛
1806 – 1861
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.”
thedailylily.com 
There is so much in this blog, Sara, to see, read and think on. I think the photo goes so well….3 candles for all your ‘3’ examples; and then all the little hearts underneath for so much more, and “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” The poem sure does give us many things to reflect on about Love, as do the scriptures posted.
Your words, “Love is a powerful force when read and acted upon from the Eternal Word” says to me that Love is not static…it is action, manifested in some way. I was reminded of I Corinthians 13 which lists many things that Love is and other things it is not, such as love is patient, kind, always protects, trusts, hopes, perseveres, etc. It is not proud, boastful, envious, self-seeking, etc.
Debi, The whole of 3 is complete in many ways just as you stated from your Blog reading observation!
This morning being Feb 1, my devotion quoted from one of Trevor Hudson’s books, “We have been made by love, in love, to love. We are wired for friendship both human and divine.”
I have been a fan of essential oils for a very long time. I delight in their healing properties from rub to fragrance. I have often mixed them to serve my day in various ways. This week as I started the display of the heart shaped love of three, I thought why don’t I mix my 3 tea candles. What a delight in my home when Lavender, Eucalyptus and Camomile all burned simultaneously from 3 tiny candles but with great force of power of the sense of smell.
This setting gave me time to contemplate my thoughts on my thinking, “Love is a powerful force when read and acted upon from the Eternal Word”! Matthew 24:35 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”
John 13:34-35 brings love and my little glass hearts that Debi mentioned into focus. ”So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”“
John 13:34-35 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/jhn.13.34-35.NLT
1 John 4:7-21 (ESV)
God Is Love
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit…”
Luke 6:32 “If you love only those who love you, why should you get credit for that? Even sinners love those who love them! 33 And if you do good only to those who do good to you, why should you get credit? Even sinners do that much!”
Great Scripture to share on the love blog, I think 🙏💜, from (NIV). “The Greatest Commandment
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[c] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[d] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
The above verses are from Matthew 22
Tammy, a tall 2 part commandment! Yet, when you pause and think about it love flows upward, downward and forward! Another Big 3!
Seems the love puzzle often shows a missing part because we forget what? Tammy fill in the missing part. You chose from 1, 2, or 3!
1)myself
2)the Lord your God
3)others
I didn’t know there was going to be a test 😩 🤔 let me read this question again…… “Seems the love puzzle often shows a missing part because we forget what? Tammy fill in the missing part. You chose from 1, 2, or 3!
1)myself
2)the Lord your God
3)others”
Is 1) corrrect?🤷♀️I need some help on this test?
Sorry Tammy, question was not real clear upon reading again. I was thinking what it seems we often forget before we trying and love others. Maybe what I forget…try 2
Oh, thank you Sara! Yes, 2…. We must not forget the greatest commandment 🙏 Heavenly Father, help us to remember the greatest commandment and to put it into practice 🙏🙏
Oh thank you Sara! Yes, 2….. the greatest commandment. Heavenly Father please help us remember and to put into practice what it says🙏🙏🙏
Sara, you have spoken to us about hearts, “heart shaped love of three, “; Light, “mix my 3 tea candles”; and love. “Contemplate love-to”, etc. And I think you show the interrelatedness of them all. And regarding Tammy’s post on Matthew 22, you state, “Yet, when you pause and think about it love flows upward, downward and forward!”
“Forward” brought to mind your book, “Throwing Your Light Forward”, an in depth look at and workbook on relationships, friendships and fellowship. I found that a few excerpts from this book were very meaningful to me and perhaps the ongoing blog here.
“In our relationships, friendships and fellowships, we will throw light forward if we focus outward to one another.” (pg 9)
“Sara’s Reflections on Light: Light shines into my Relationships for exposure of motives. When I join the True Light my Relationships become communion. I John 3:18 “instructs us not to love in word or in tongue only but in deed and truth.” Then vs 19 give us our clue to understanding the light within us. By loving in deed and truth we will know that we are of the truth. Bottom line is don’t just talk about love but show in your actions and bring light to darkness as Jesus threw light at Simon’s dinner party.” (pg 65)
“All Living Things Have A Heart”
“In Your Light We See Light. Psalm 36:9”
I also thank Sara for her help and agree with Tammy “We must not forget the greatest commandment”. I can see how it would have to be #2.
It seems that Love begins with God, He loving us and enabling us to love Him. And we can’t love others or ourselves unless we receive His love and Him; and then love Him.
I think Sara showed us this progression (as I re-read it) from the scriptures she shared in I John 4:7-21.
I get a glimpse of the importance of Sara putting those three different candles with 3 different oils together (Love sure is intertwined and interdependent) and of us needing to understand “love flows upward, downward and forward”.
Love is so BEAUTIFUL when we drink from the *River of life! (*found in the Book of Life, God’s Word, the Bible) and eat from the Bread of Life. John 6:35 Jesus says, “I am the Bread of Life…”
Jesus is also the light of the world. John 8;12
Try and imagine a table with a candle light that powers light into the World and that includes us. Gives water and wine plus bread for our table to refresh us so we will never be hungry or thirsty.
Love table awaiting to serve us. WOW! When I think on things like this and watch my 3 year old granddaughter with her play dough making hearts in many colors and saying they are all for me my heart leaps for joy. Imagine our Hesvenly Father when we drink, eat and share our candle with one another. Love one another as I loved you so you must love one another. John 13:34