This G.K. Chesterton quote struck me particularly hard today as I was perusing some potential quotes to use for today’s thought. My idea was to find something related to education since school is starting back next week. In this light, I was reading through some things said by C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton. But instead, this quote by G.K Chesterton stopped me in my tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“There is a great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.” Chesterton, G.K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I have a child acting out, when someone just isn’t being kind repeatedly and is harder and harder to love and to be around, perhaps I should focus less on correction and more on pouring out love to this person. A thing must be loved before it is lovable. Perhaps this child does not feel loved at the moment and so she finds it more difficult to show love to others. I believe there is a related biblical principle at play here as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We love because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We love because first<\/strong> God loved us. We are only able to show love to God and to others because he loved us first. I think that perhaps pouring out more love to that kid who is having a difficult time loving others may be just the thing to turn the story around. Anyone else have a kid in need of some extra love this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This G.K. Chesterton quote struck me particularly hard today as I was perusing some potential quotes to use for today’s thought. My idea was to find something related to education since school is starting back next week. In this light, I was reading through some things said by C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton. But instead, this quote by G.K Chesterton stopped me in my tracks. “There is a great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.” Chesterton, G.K. When I have a child acting out, when someone just isn’t being kind repeatedly and is harder and harder to love and to be around, perhaps I should focus less on correction and more on pouring out love to this person. A thing must be loved before it is lovable. Perhaps this child does not feel loved at the moment and so she finds it more difficult to show love to others. I believe there is a related biblical principle at play here as well. “We love because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19 We love because first God loved us. We are only able to show love to God and to others because he loved us first. I think that perhaps pouring out more love to that kid who is having a difficult time loving others may be just the thing to turn the story around. Anyone else have a kid in need of some extra love this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[70,69],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-1-john-419","tag-g-k-chesterton"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_8573-scaled.jpg?fit=1923%2C2560&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}