Love is, by excellence, the most noble of all feelings.

Source of all virtues, it has been sung by Christ in verse and prose.

The master has offered us the love, as opposing the an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, as a new way of engaging with each other: Love God above all things and your neighbor as yourselves.

Love as a path to forgiveness: Do not say that you must forgive up to seven, but up to seventy times seven.

Love as a principle of charity: What you will do to the smallest of my brethren, you did it for me.

He taught us the love that leads us to patience and resignation: If someone smite your face, offer him the other one as well.

Jesus, through the example of His love, taught us about the gift of serving: Everything, therefore, you would that men should do to you, do so to them.

He has taught us, in the name of love, to let go of material goods: You shall not accumulate for yourselves treasures on Earth, where moth and rust corrode. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven; so, where is your treasure, is also your heart.

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Let us make a reflection: What does it truly mean to cultivate love?

Cultivate is a word that can be used in various situations.

The farmer, for instance, cultivates the vegetables, because, from the moment that he throws the seed on the land, he needs to irrigate them, fertilize them, so that they may grow strong and healthy.

In the same way, friendship needs to be cultivated. It needs kindness, attention, affection, trust, detachment.

In its turn, love also needs to be cultivated, because it is the divine seed that has been planted in us by the supreme Father, at the moment of our creation.

Thus, through our various reincarnation experiences, this seed needs to be irrigated and fertilized so that it can bear the fruits of its own.

The fruits that nourish the Spirit and give us support on the road of progress, of which we are all walkers.

Fruits of forgiveness, patience, resignation, charity, benevolence, justice, faith, tolerance.

Cultivating love, is, therefore, to cultivate life, because the great challenge for us all is exactly this: to learn to live and not just to survive.

Jesus sentenced: I have come so that you may have life and life in abundance.

Let us take the love as the source of life. Let us make it our road, our roadmap and our north. Even in pain, let us love without cease, because the pains go away, the love remains.

In the doubts of the journey, let us cultivate love, because, even if, at times, the road is dark, we will be sure that we are moving in the right direction.

Love is the presence of God in the heart, fostering peace, although the roar of the storms around.

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The seed was planted by God. Let us water it, cultivate, let us gain the fruits and be happy, because happiness is the purpose for which the Lord has given us life.

Let us think about it. Let us take the plow and prepare the ground of our own heart so that the seed of love may blossom and bear the thirty, sixty, a hundred!

Spiritist Moment Team, with thoughts of the entry
Amor, from the book Repositório de sabedoria, v. 1, by the Spirit
Joanna de Ângelis, psychographed by Divaldo Pereira Franco,
publisher LEAL.
September 3.2014.