12 Elul
As you choose the life of thanking and blessing, love is not an obligation to be assumed, but instead and accurate name for your desire to live as the image of God. Love becomes the guiding principle in your responses to all people, both in word and in deed. Ad the people on your most immediate circles are touched by this love, their attitudes and activities toward you will transform, in this new ambience created by the intersection of Divine light and your own light, your life's encounters will become a series of thankful and blessed exchanges -not perfect, but never bereft...Such blessing begets love, which lays the foundation for a differently ordered world.
From Thanking & Blessing by Jay Marshall