Just the love that we ourselves create.
A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.
After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.
Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.
I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.
I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.
If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.
I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.
Love and blessings
Your brother
don
2007-03-20 00:39:54
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answered by Anonymous
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Sam, I can assure you that there is lots of real love in the world.
I am myself astounded about it. We are never alone, never hopeless. Love is indeed always there for us to be found, every single moment.
That you ask this question shows me that you cannot see this real love. Perhaps your view is far too global. World development is due to all the little elements and even if as a global development humans going downhill, the individuals are indeed still very much capable of real love.
2007-03-17 22:42:52
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answered by I love you too! 6
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May be every one moves in a faster pace in this developed world . People may not have time to express their love openly as in older days . But every one have the wish to love every human being in their inner mind . No doubt in it .Otherwise the existence of this world might have lost a long time back .
Spread love and peace , my friend . Every thing will be allright after some time .
2007-03-18 00:31:56
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answered by subra 6
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