We need love!
After watching news reports of all of the mass shootings, toxic politics, and the overall strain on the citizens of the world, I believe LOVE IS A NECESSITY! Christ said that the law and the prophets rests on the concept of loving our neighbors as ourselves. Let’s actually do it!
Over and over again I see the neglect and abandonment of love for others. We are often driven, through fear and anxiety, to consider our own welfare at the expense of others not realizing the degree to which our lives are connected.
We need to consider an expansion of our definition of love that includes something other than familial or romantic love. Can we truly try to treat each other like we’re looking in the mirror? If we can, let’s begin treating ourselves and each other better.
“Let me be a seal upon your heart, like the seal upon your hand. For love is fierce as death. Passion is mighty as Sheol; its darts are darts of fire, a blazing flame. Vast floods cannot quench love, nor rivers drown it. If a man offered all his wealth for love, he would be laughed to scorn.”
Songs of Solomon 8:6-7 Tanakh
