100 Days of Love

February 14, 2014 by Iryna 2 Comments

“Love & Run Challenge” Day 100

If I asked you what is the most beautiful feeling one can experience as a human being, you would most likely say that it’s “love”, and that would probably be true for all 7 billion people in the world. Though we all have our own definition of love, we all know and understand love when we see it, when we feel it, and when we experience it. With so many different ethnicities, religions, cultures, languages, values, and beliefs in our world, the one universal, most powerful force that transcends all that is love. Love is freedom. Love is peace. Love is healing. Love is kindness. Love is inspiration. Love is not only a source of life, but love is life itself.

Throughout centuries and generations, love inspired authors, musicians, and artists to create masterpieces to keep us all in awe and wonder. Love is the one active force behind so many successful people whether in business, or politics, or sports. Though extraordinary and divine in its nature, love is “ordinary” in that it’s meant for all of us to have and share with each other. Deep down in our hearts, we all want and need love. Love is as necessary as water, food, and air, so we can live a happy, healthy, and fulfilled life.

Here’s something I find very interesting: when I googled “love,” it showed 1 billion and 570 million search results. When I googled “fear,” it showed only 119 million search results. Doesn’t this make you think that love stands out, that love is above all, and that love conquers  fear? You either surrender to love or you surrender to fear. You either live your life filled with love, or you live it filled with fear—it’s up to you.

In my “100+ Day Love & Run Challenge” book project, I purposefully took it upon myself to not only run for 100 days straight, but also to explore and share love with others for those 100 days too. I wanted see how love can really make a difference in this world. If love is wishing well and doing good for others, and if each one of us here on earth were to implement this “love formula” even in a small way, this world could be freed from evil. Though “100 Days of Love” is more metaphorical and taken as only a cut of time, I wanted to see how much impact one human being could bring into a community when acting with and doing things out of love. You’ll be able to read the full account of my love journey when the book is published.

Among many good things I have learned about love, one of the things that really made an impression on me is that love carries so much divine healing power. It can heal not only our hearts, but love has the power to heal the whole world from all its turmoil. The whole world is hurting because of the lack of love, and because love is the answer, guns and wars won’t solve problems and bring peace into the world—but love can. Everywhere love goes, it brings change to those who give it, and to those who receive it, because love is transformational in its nature.

I believe that we are all born into this world with the mission to love. We are to love not only our families and friends, but we are to love and  treat well all of the people that we are sharing this life with. Love is a continuous daily decision to choose to do good to others. Love is always asking, “What can I do to help others and to show that I truly care?” Mother Theresa was a tiny little woman with God’s big heart, filled with so much love and compassion for the whole world. We all know about her. She wasn’t rich, she didn’t have any political power, but she has impacted the whole world with the message of love for all the generations to come. She proved with her own life that love can change people’s lives and it can change the world. She showed what love can do. In the presence of love, evil has to bow down. I believe in God, and if in any way I know and understand God, I will say without any doubt in my heart that God is love. And so I challenge you to embrace love…

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