This has been stirring in me for a while now. How many of us have experienced true Love? Not just an emotional high or an accenting thought but I mean a transformative work inside of you that kills all prejudice, hatred, separation, self depreciating thoughts or feelings, any judgment based on your opinion vs the world, control, etc?
I've read several posts lately about Caitlyn Jenner being a disgrace to womanhood and saying she is a hypocrite still just trying to make it off the shows money. I've read posts defaming the Duggar family and their situation with their son coming out to the world that he molested his sisters when he was 14. I've read posts disproving any existence of God based on empirical fact and evidence provided by men. I've read posts cutting down relationships rooted out of a plutonic understanding and agreement. Posts saying that marriage is becoming obsolete. And so much more. My head actually physically hurts from all the reading I've done in the past week. But it has all been eye opening to me. I am not claiming to have everything right nor have done any real research to come up with statistics for what I am about to say, but it's my heart and I hope sharing it helps us all grow. 2 years ago, I had an encounter with Love. It changed me. Love went from being a feeling, to an experience, to a job, to a belief, to a lifestyle choice, and now to a realm from where I live. Basically put, I'm surrounded by Love so it's my heart and life's blood to give Love and receive Love. For and from myself and others if the situation arises. At first it was about a girl. Then it was about "doing the right thing." Then it became my way of life. Now, I simply don't know how to naturally do anything else. By no means am I good at it or perfect. But I try to wake up and recognize that I have changed and I can't simply go back to the way things were. Despite all our knowledge and right thinking and even our good hearted intentions, there's still war and famine and sex slavery and racism and lies in the media and huge cover ups and no real acceptance for many. Despite human nature learning and growing as a functional entity, needing only basic necessities to survive and even thrive, there are still mental and physical illnesses and destroyed hearts and lives due to the lack of Love. I read a post that said,"Only your spouse should be your best friend. If you have a best friend of the opposite sex then either it's headed toward marriage or you're blurring the lines of reality." This one belief could affect an entire generation to never get close to anyone except who they marry. So that raises it's own issues. How do we know if we don't get close? And who feels so threatened by a member of the same sex that spouses can't have deep life giving friendships with others? We find flaws because we want to. We designed division out of fear. We championed, as a sentient race of beings, differing opinions so that everyone felt like their life meant something. We've reduced ourselves to a base form of life. Do you know that a school of fish, while oftentimes of the same genome sequencing, welcome outcasts from other schools? Do you know that the animal kingdom includes all other animals except in cases of survival and hierarchy? There is very little ousting of animals because of disagreement between two animals. Granted we are of a higher brain functionality and can have deep and complex relationships, but that doesn't excuse or change the fact that we segregate more than we congregate. Have you had an experience so radical, so other than, so unexplainable, that your entire life was flipped upside down on its head and it causes you to seek out and destroy the divides between secular and christian, saved and unsaved, atheist and satanist, male and female, human and animal? I encourage you. Search out that Love. Because you'll find an end to every fear you can come up with, every excuse you can make that says things can only be a certain way otherwise it's not valid, etc. I pray this doesn't come off as condescending or like I am taking a stab at anyone. I am saying that there has to be more to life than what we can find wrong or divisive about.
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