The Need for a Supply of Real Love
As I was watching a movie involving the Vietnam War, I noticed that all the infantry soldiers had a small plastic squeeze bottle fastened to their helmets. I’d probably seen it in other films, but this was the first time I noticed it.
I made some personal guesses about what the bottle was for, but then I looked it up on the Internet. The squeeze bottle contained a lubricant for the moving parts in their rifles, to keep them from jamming up, a common phenomenon in the muddy conditions of the jungle.
Considering that the average pack of a U.S. infantryman in Vietnam weighed 85 pounds, with who-knows-how-many-dozen individual items, it’s instructive to consider that rifle lubricant was the one item—other than the rifle itself—kept in a place most accessible to the soldier.
No matter how well-supplied a soldier was, his ability to fight was immediately crippled if his rifle wasn’t lubricated. The oil made everything else go.
And so it is with Real Love. Having a sufficient supply readily available makes everything else you do—personally, in relationships, as parents, at work—more effective and more fulfilling.
The absence of it can cause every other effort in your life to fail.
Keep your squeeze bottle full and close at hand. You won’t be sorry you did that.
