Apparently the phrase "Love One Another" appears 12 times in the Bible. I don't want to become either political or overly religious in my blogging, but I will have days when I won't be able to hold back my heart.
As the government shuts down, it seems increasingly that our leaders are teaching our children that it is okay to batter one another to get "thine own way." We have a law that was passed and maybe isn't the best it can be, but it is a law that finally helps our poor, our needy, our middle class -- everyday people who just need an equal opportunity to be well. It is a form of love.
I understand that we will never achieve the ability to love unconditionally, but it certainly can be a goal. I state here, emphatically, that the withholding of love to anyone in any form is not on the road to perfect love. I do know, that "perfect love casts out all fear." For those who are fearful of their future and are now dependent on the actions of our leaders who seem motivated by schoolyard antics and bully tactics, I say, have faith, and hope. Love endures all things. Love does conquer all but sometimes it isn't pretty. I say, to all sides in the political arena, "please remember the lessons our mothers and fathers have taught us." Remember the Golden Rule. Remember to be a friend. You don't always have to be right and if you do, you're probably wrong. It is never okay to hit. Be helpful. Be kind. Think before you speak. Always let another person go first. Help others. If your friend forgot his lunch, give him your apple. Share.
And in the words of Mother Teresa, "Give until it hurts."
As the government shuts down, it seems increasingly that our leaders are teaching our children that it is okay to batter one another to get "thine own way." We have a law that was passed and maybe isn't the best it can be, but it is a law that finally helps our poor, our needy, our middle class -- everyday people who just need an equal opportunity to be well. It is a form of love.
I understand that we will never achieve the ability to love unconditionally, but it certainly can be a goal. I state here, emphatically, that the withholding of love to anyone in any form is not on the road to perfect love. I do know, that "perfect love casts out all fear." For those who are fearful of their future and are now dependent on the actions of our leaders who seem motivated by schoolyard antics and bully tactics, I say, have faith, and hope. Love endures all things. Love does conquer all but sometimes it isn't pretty. I say, to all sides in the political arena, "please remember the lessons our mothers and fathers have taught us." Remember the Golden Rule. Remember to be a friend. You don't always have to be right and if you do, you're probably wrong. It is never okay to hit. Be helpful. Be kind. Think before you speak. Always let another person go first. Help others. If your friend forgot his lunch, give him your apple. Share.
And in the words of Mother Teresa, "Give until it hurts."
1 Corinthians 13The Message (MSG)
The Way of Love13 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.
3-7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
8-10 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
11 When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
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