Love Thy Neighbor.”
It’s especially hard to “love thy neighbor” these days. When you watch current events and hear a lot of negative news, you can’t help but feel angry, frustrated, desperate, depressed, and sometimes a feeling of resignation.
How Do We Cope?
What have we become? Where is this world heading to? When will we STOP complaining, bickering, and throwing stones at each other?
With this time of uncertainty, failed leadership and governance, and lack of understanding of this new health crisis, how do we cope?
The Best Time
Isn’t this time the best time to hold on to each other? Isn’t this an excellent opportunity to reach out and mend our broken relationships with people around us?
Why not show our love and concern despite our differences in color, race, and gender?
We Are Not Different
We are no different from each other. We all do the same things to live–to survive! We breath the same air, we walk on the same planet, and as the Bible says, (that is, if you believe in the Bible), “we all are from dust, and from dust we shall (all) return.”
How do we love thy neighbor in this time of chaos? Is it even possible with this so-called “social distancing?” How can we do it when most of us are quarantined (or, some believed “imprisoned in their own home”)?
It’s In The Small Stuff
It’s in small or little things that we do or can do. Yes, we CAN do it IF we really want to. It only takes one step by one person to do something good, and continue to pay it forward, and we can paint a better picture of the world we live in.
Try It
Just try it. Even one time and you might see a difference–not only to the person you did a good deed to but most importantly, to yourself. It will give you peace. It will transform your heart and then, perhaps, your belief that the world we live in is not so bad after all.
A Guide-Pay It Forward
Here is something I created that can guide us for a week of expressing our love and concern for one another.
Let’s begin with a day, and then two, and if it leads us to do the whole week, then God Bless YOU and your HEART!
Spreading love is not that hard to do. We all have love in our hearts, but as my favorite saying goes,
“The love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay. Love isn’t love ’til you give it away.”
