Active Ingredient
Alan Cohen
“Have you ever read the list of ingredients on a tube of toothpaste or patent medicine? There is usually a long roll of chemicals, colorings & additives, followed by bold letters: “Active Ingredient.” It’s the one thing that really gets the job done and makes the item worth buying. Everything else is a filler or enhancer. Without the Active Ingredient, the other stuff would be totally useless! LOVE is the active ingredient of life, the chemical that makes everything else worthwhile. We can have all the other amenities, but if LOVE is absent, we are lost. We can feel victimized or abandoned, but when we add Love, suddenly life has meaning again. Today, God, show me how to truly care, that I may be a demonstration of Your LOVE, and bring Your peace to all of my activities.”
Adapted from A Deep Breath of Life