The following is taken from “I Believe God Wants You To Know” daily inspirational email published by Neale Donald Walsch, the author of the famous Conversations With God book series. You can sign up for his daily email here.

Here’s his email for 7/23/2009:

On this day of your life, dear friend, I believe God wants you to know…

….that love is not what you want; it is what you are. It is very important to not get these two confused.

If you think that love is what you want, you will go searching for it all over the place. If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it all over the place. The second approach will cause you to find what the searching will never reveal.

Yet you cannot give love in order to get it. Doing that is as much as saying you do not now have it. And that statement will, of course, be your reality. No, you must give love because you have it to give. In this will you experience your own possession of it.

Love, Your Friend….

Neale