Here’s a great devotional taken from Today’s Daily Encounter. I hope this will encourage you and challenge you to continue looking for someone who needs love each day.
Jesus said, ” A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
Most of my generation ( at least), know how much the world fawned over actress, marilyn Monroe. Perhaps fewer know how rejected she felt throughout her life.
A reported from the New York Times was interviewing her and, being aware of her toubled background, posed the following question: ‘Did you ever feel loved by any of the foster families with whome you lived?’
” ‘Once,’ Marilyn replied, ‘ when I was about seven or eight. The woman I was living with was putting on makeup, and i was watching her. She was in a happy mood, so she reached over and patted my cheeks with her rouge puff….For that moment, I felt loved by her.”
How incredibly sad. One can undertsnad why Marilyn ended her life at the height of her popularity. All the fame, attention, popularity and mone toegtehr can never fill the empty void of an aching, lonely heart–a heart that deep down doesn’t feel loved.
Some time ago I watched Larry King interviewing Winono Judd on his TV program, Larry King Live. Winona has sold millions of copies of her recordings, and has achieved fame as one of the all time greats in female Country music. It was fascinating to hear her background. If I remember correctly, her father deserted her mother before she was born. Winona never got to see hime before he died. She was crushed when she learned of his passing. She, too, struggled much of her personal life and shared how desparately lonely she felt when, after being on stage and adored by thousands of fans, had to go back to a hotel room alone. Winona may have had a loving mother, but she felt the terrible pains of not having a loving father.
Winona also spoke of her faith and said she is doing much better these days in her personal life. After hearing her story, one can understand why the title of one of her albums is “What the World Needs Now Is Love.”
How true this is. Without knowing a mother and a father’s love, which millions of people growing up in today’s society don’t know, we limp along in the shados of life trying to eke out a