faith-in-love

Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

How do you know if something is real? That__ easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it give you wings? Does it give you roots? Does it make you look back at a month ago and say, __ am a whole different person right now_? If yes, then it__ real. The evidence of truth and reality, lies in how much something can touch you, can change you, even if it__ from very far away. Distance is only the evidence of what can be surpassed.

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.

Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.

There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, righteous, gracious, remotely spiritual, or worthy of praise where mass murder is concerned. We have been in this world long enough to know that by now and to understand that nonviolent conflict resolution informed by mutual compassion is the far better option.

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.