Love’s Apothecary

Love is the eternal seed planted that always yields life when motives for sowing and reaping are pure.

Love is expressed in many forms of behavior toward one another and even toward ourselves.

We can express love through acts of kindness, patience with one another, being slow to anger, looking after the needs of one another and remaining humble in all that we do as we live a life of forgiveness toward others who have hurt us.

If we love, in truth, we have drunk of the antidote to hate.

If we hate another, the poison that we intend for their harm swallows us in our own slow death and though we may appear as living on the outside, we are darkened and buried, alive, by the hate we hold in our hearts.

It is better to love than to hate, for love is life and hate is death.

Where is the apothecary that barters in this antidote we must all drink to rid ourselves of hate?