love regardless.

Loving regardless is something I strive to focus on. I'm imperfect; therefore, "striving" for it gets ruined by distractions, but God's perfection covers for that. This concept of being joyful goes hand in hand with love. Having a willingness to love  God and love people can only be reached through a kind heart and a joyfulness that come solely from the lord. Something that I will never take forgranted was when a friend told me to 'love w/o expectations.' Hearing that, I kind of shrugged like what the heck do you mean by 'expectations', but really thinking about it made realize how much i expect something back with the love i give. Being nice in the hallways, holding a door open, or whatever it is can be self gratifying but are we doing it to overflow the love that God gives to us, or just to gratify ourselves expecting something from the people with love on?