Affect. Effect. Love.

   It's super crazy how much an impact you won't make on the masses, which is why we should focus on the persons. The person you sit next to in class, your co-worker who gets on your nerves, or the person who lives across the hall, down the street, or maybe even room with. The people that you interact with daily are the people who need to be affected the most. I never knew the difference between the two (effect and affect).
   I thought they were interchangeable. When I think in terms of reality they are very different. What I mean by this is we affect people, we are not an effect. TO affect someone is 'to act on' or 'to impress the mind'. TO be an effect is to be produced. We should be loving people not being the one seeking love. <-- I know that statement seems crazy, but if you are truly made a new creation in Christ then you are whole in Him. By being made a new creation our mental focus changes from self to others. So today, when you go about your daily life think about how you affect people.

ef·fect

 
[ih-fekt] 
–noun
1.      something that is produced by an agency or cause; result;consequence: Exposure to the  sun had the effect oftoughening his skin.
2.      power to produce results; efficacy; force; validity; influence:His protest had no effect.

af·fect

¹  [v. uh-fekt; n. af-ekt] –verb (used with object)

1.

to act on; produce an effect or change in: Cold weather affected the crops.

2.

to impress the mind or move the feelings of: The music affected him deeply.

Peace!

S.R. Macke