By Evelyn Williams

One thing I have learned over the years is that you must love and appreciate yourself first before you can love and appreciate someone else. You must love and appreciate the gifts that God has placed within you, before you can love and appreciate the gifts that are within someone else.

We spend so much of our time waiting to be loved, hoping love will find us, searching, yearning for that special love and feeling empty and lost without it.

Wanting someone to give us love and fill us up, but life does not always work that way. You will only draw to you what you create in life and what you believe you are worthy of.

So many of us seek happiness, love, passion, wealth and power from other people, but fail to believe that we have the gifts within us to create all of those things already. God said in Deute-ronomy 8:18 "but thou shall remember the Lord thy God: for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth." God has given to each of us special abilities, gifts and talents. But it takes us to look deep within and see how valuable we are. Only then can we:

1. Love ourselves

2. Lover others and

3. Love and appreciate the things that God gave us to enjoy.

Are you happy being the person you are? Do you appreciate all the amazing gifts, talents, etc. that you have and do you really love yourself enough to let another person love you back?

Women in particular, lose their passion and vitality, they lose their life when their heart gets broken if their mate doesn't love them back.

This is why you must love yourself first, so that you won't be crushed and mis-sed out on the most powerful force on earth.

Love is the most powerful energy on this planet. It is vital and dynamic but you can only control the light of it when you love yourself first.

When you do the current of love will flow past you and people will notice and begin to love you also. If you don't have love and respect for yourself neither will anyone else have love and respect for you. so love yourself and create the love in your life that you deserve.