That looks to me like you first must love yourself or how would you know how to love your neighbor?
I think you have it wrong way around. It is in the giving that we know it all. Love is of God from God through us; if it stops with us, it dies, killed by the Self.
73 posted on 12/21/2011 1:12:53 PM PST by D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)