Continued from Steve Young. . . ‘The Law of Love’,
You may feel like Moses at the edge of the Red Sea: you’ve got water in front of you, the Egyptians behind you in hot pursuit and you’re stuck. But what if the law of love could open a path for you? Maybe you could “make a way out of no way,” as the African-American saying goes. There is power in the law of love. Give this idea a chance to change your life, because it has changed mine.
So often I might have tripped on various looming obstacles I found in my path, sometimes boulder sized stumbling blocks that came from different directions. I didn’t come across the law of love from a pleasant walk in the park. I dug deep into the law of love out of desperation, trying to find a way forward during some dark times. Focusing on the law of love helped me zero in on what really matters: the perpetual, unchanging principles of love at the core of Jesus’s gospel.
At times I look back over my life and think, what is my legacy? What have I accomplished? I’ve got trophies and rings and all, but what have I done with my life? And I think to myself, the full measure of my life (or anyone’s life) is to have a healing intent, seeking to heal others. That’s what I pray for every night—to reach the full measure of who I can be. If I have selflessly sought to heal someone, I have done the work that God sent me here to do. I’ve such great peace in that knowledge for myself. Beyond that, anything else I have accomplished is extra. The foundational principle of the restored gospel is that we are here to learn and grow. My life purpose is to figure out how best to allow that to happen. The legacy of my life is seeking to heal others.
Trust me—I’m not an expert on the law of love. I am in process. All I’m doing is trying to describe it, knowing that’s where I need to go. I just have been blessed to see the direction. But like you, I’m just another traveler on the journey to that place. ~Steve Young, The Law of Love (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2022), 7-9
