“Daily Deposits in Your Love Banking Account”
I have an important non-financial question: How is your bank account? No, it really is not a financial question. It is a question about whether you are investing in loving God, yourself, others, your dog and/or cat—whoever and whatever you get to love in a healthy manner today.
I wrote to a friend the other day the following words: “Dear ________,
Your hard work on yourself is not only a way of loving yourself now. It is also a way to put resources into your love banking account for later. Recovery is a no-lose activity!
What deposits will you and I make in our love accounts today?
Daryl”
Of course, this banking metaphor is hugely inadequate. Banking is transactional. Loving is so much more than merely transactional.
However, even if loving is more than a transaction, loving does include transactions. I need to be sure that I have put enough love into the relationship and into the world to be able to take out what I need. When I was young and about to go out on a date, my dad would always ask me if I had enough money, and he would always say the same thing. “You don’t want to be financially embarrassed.”
Dad was right to ask the question, but I have another question for myself and you: Are we going to be lovingly embarrassed today? Let’s all make more and bigger deposits than withdrawals today. Deal?
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