As I sit here in my beautiful house, on a cold and rainy December day, I am pondering my very actions…and deeper still, my very thoughts. My beating heart is bleeding and broken over many things I will never understand. Recent murders, rapes, convictions, and accusations have taken over the media in the last several months. I, being the self-proclaimed neutral party with a strong distaste of the “news”, haven’t been able to escape the over-sensationalized and contorted stories those three letter stations like to run. Maybe it’s the five deployments in nine years that the Navy saddled me with, or maybe it’s just my personal outlook on life. I firmly believe that if we recognize a problem, it is our DUTY to work towards a solution. If we do not, we are accessories to the so-called-crime. Where in life have we been afforded the luxury of idly standing by and allowing everyone else to fix the problems we see? And the solution is yet so simple. So written. It’s not a secret, yet so many eyes are blind to it. Four simple letters…one tall charge. L. O. V. E. Are we not commanded to LOVE one another? Second only to LOVING the Lord? And if we feel like we love in a sea of hate, so be it. Because we, like rudimentary tools, will strengthen and sharpen each other. Proverbs 27:17 tell us, “Iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another”. Our love, honest and true, delicate and vulnerable, will rub off and sharpen our brothers and sisters, our neighbors near and far. Yet, spoken true by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness”. In the exact opposite of the charge on life from our Lord and Savior, hate begets hate. Those very words sting. Hate. How deep must hate run before we’ve broken it all beyond repair? Back to my original quandary…my very thoughts and actions. I’d never want to point a finger at myself as being the PROBLEM, would I? And isn’t it my DUTY to fix it? I am but a lowly sinner, among the worst of them all. And if I am not loving through my actions and thoughts it is my responsibility to fix it immediately. My promise to you, if you’ve made it to this point, is that I will do better to act and think out of LOVE and not hate. And if I do, may it sharpen you, so we together can become part of the solution? End rant. Seriously. I LOVE all of you, and pray you’ll work on your heart, mind, hands, and tongue.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 20:50:25 +0000
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