LOVE!

1 Corinthians 13:13 "So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three;  but the greatest of these is love.

Love is one of the greatest things we can leave behind.  It has eternal value.  And when the day comes when we no longer need faith or hope, love will abide. 
Everyone wants to be loved, feel loved and know that they are loved!  Some will go to extremes to find it.  Some will even sin to get a glimpse of it.
So how can we love?  Well, first we need Christ.  We need to be born again to understand what true love is.  It's then that we can love in a way God designed it to be.  It's then that we can love others in a way that passes all understanding.  Love is selfless.  Love is serving.  And the rest of 1 Corinthians 13 explains in detail what love is.
We have established some habits that have allowed love to blossom.  It blesses my heart when I see it in my children, caring for each other, hugging each other.  Every morning, afternoon, and evening I like to kiss and hug my husband and each of my children and tell them that I love them.  Also when anyone leaves, because we just never know if God will allow another meeting.
We can show love by serving joyfully and giving generously, and that's easy to do on special occasions but harder in the day to day moments.  I have purposed to not show discontent when a 'hey Mommmm!' may interrupt me.  I want a smile to be the first thing my child sees when I turn to them.  I want to put my arm around them and fluff their hair to let them know that I'm happy to have them by my side.  I want to let them know that I'm listening and what they are saying is important to me.  I want them to know that when they are with their dad and I they are safe, will always hear the truth, and are loved!
It's that love that builds the relationship, forms trust, and allows family to withstand trials.  It lessens the blow when you have to tell them something they may not want to hear.  They know that you are always in their court, and willing to do whatever it takes to make their life holy and happy. 
I am so thankful to God for changing my heart's desires, and allowing me to love others in a way that He has loved me.  If I leave anything to my husband and children, I want them to know that I loved them! Study this chapter and learn to love on those close to you like God may not give you tomorrow to do so!

1 Corinthians 13:
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clangy symbol. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; [fn]
it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.