Where does Love Begin?

Hi everyone!
How's your week so far?

As I continue reading "No Greater Love: Mother Teresa" this week, I came across a chapter on Children and the Family. Here is an excerpt:

I have a conviction that I want to share with you. Love begins at home, and every Co-worker should try to make sure that deep family love abides in his or her home.  Only when love abides at home can we share it with our next-door neighbor.  Then it will show forth and you will be able to say to them, "Yes, love is here." And then you will be able to share it with everyone around you. 

One day I found a little girl in the street, so I took her to our children's home.  We have a nice place and good food there.  We gave her clean clothes and we made her as happy as we could. 

After a few hours, the little girl ran away.  I looked for her, but I couldn't find her anywhere.  Then after a few days, I found her again.  And, again, I brought her to our home and told a sister,  "Sister, please follow this child wherever she goes." 

The little girl ran away again.  But the sister followed her to find out where she was going and why she kept running away. 

She followed the little girls and discovered that the little one's mother was living under a tree in the street.  The mother had placed two stones there and did her cooking under that tree. 

The sister sent a word to me and I went there.  I found joy on that little girl's face, because she was with her mother, who loved her and was making special food for her in that little open place. 

I asked the little girls, "How is it that you would not stay with us?  You had so many beautiful things in our home." 

She answered, "I could not live without my mother.  She loves me."  That little girl was happier to have the meager food her mother was cooking in the street than all the things I had given her. 

While the child was with us, I could scarcely see a smile on her face.  But when I found her there with her mother, in the street, they were smiling. 

Why? Because they were family. 
Right from the beginning, since love begins at home, I think we should teach our children to love one another at home.  I think this will strengthen our children, so that they can give the love to others in the future. 

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What a reminder for all of us, as parents,
to shower our children with Love and more Love.
Let's show them what Love is,
Teach them how to love,
Fill their love tank to the fullest, 'till it's overflowing

Love surely begins at HOME

A new command I give you: Love one another.

As I have loved you, so you must love one another 

-Jesus 

(John 13:34)

For His Glory~