I think it is love.
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
2007-04-02 14:58:30
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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yeha me too! here is a article i found written by a girl who goes by Romanticide:
Though I can accept that most of you people don't read this crap I write I'll still post it anyway. Why? Because well... I CAN!
Yet again someone posed a question to me and I thought HEY lets answer it. It was all on the afterlife. Now many have claimed to see a afterlife. A just before death expierence. The all knowing "golden gates" as they swing open. Now I put aside religion when thinking about this and when reading this I hope you do the same. I don't care about Gods and other such nonsense in this topic. JUST AFTER LIFE.
Right now thats done let me explain my thoughts. Well simply there are people who claimed to have seen the "other side". The "bright light" which everyone assumes to be a heaven of some kind. But what is it really? Well medical science claims a dilussion. Someone wants to go to heaven so much that when they reach that moment just before death they see some odd stuff which could be thought of as heaven. But do you always believe science? I sure as hell dont.
But what also about the idea of "your life flashing before your eyes". I thought about this and it struck me. Perhaps that is the moment where your memories are wiped out. So if we are reincarnated then our minds are wiped clean and ready to start again. To do that it'll all need to be collected and killed in a swoop. Not a bad theory eh?
But quite simply when I was thinking and researching this question only thing I could come up with was "I don't honestly know". We have no proof of afterlife. We cannot have first hand expierence. So what are we to do? Hope that we have been good boys and girls when we die or blindly spit a chance of peace in the face? Looks like we have a hell of a choice. Hope I make the right one eh?
2007-04-02 13:10:26
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answered by That1Girl 1
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Our place in the universe. How we relate to our place determines the individual we become. The different factions of races and beliefs on this planet make our lives as they are today, and is only considering this planet, which is plenty enough for most of us. (There is Emeril and his cooking for the space station MIR, I wouldn't go there for his food,= getting you to laugh)
Are you reaching beyond to better yourself, or find a comfortable place because you aren't where you need to be now.
2007-04-02 14:52:49
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answered by Marissa Di 5
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there are 3 ultimate questions. Death? God? UFOs? all three have not been answered.
2007-04-02 13:19:03
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answered by Wait a Minute 4
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What happens after we die?
There are wars fought over it, people die because of their beliefs in it and the debate never ends. I think that is the ulitimate question and the one you never know the answer to untill you get there
2007-04-02 14:24:34
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answered by ♫That'll be the Day♫ 6
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It is the last question you shall ask. The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.
2007-04-02 14:43:56
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answered by Psyengine 7
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1- what the hell is the point of being here?
2- what the hell is outside the universe?
3- why the hell Jesus Christ loved the people who hated him?
4- how the hell does it feel like if you were the size on an atom?
oh hell there are so many.....
2007-04-02 13:42:54
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answered by Anonymous
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The existence or no existence of God? Or how this universe going to end? Mystery.
2007-04-02 13:15:27
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answered by Anonymous
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I think it's the meaning of our existence.
2007-04-02 13:08:41
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answered by Becca 3
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The ultimate question is, what do you do if you meet an emo bigfoot in the forest and it wants you to actually LISTEN TO THE PINK SPIDERS?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-04-02 13:38:45
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answered by - Tudor Gothic Serpent - 6
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