photo credit: Aaron Springston
Today's simple hope is that everyone will love each other. Whether it's your child, spouse, friends, or strangers, just love them. A rather well-known seer once advised us that it's easy to love those who love you, but to love your enemies, to bless those who persecute you, that is the difficult task. In an age when almost everyone seems determined to make someone an enemy, this is particularly good advice. A dear friend told a story about herself in which she was terse with a loved one over a small act which made no difference in the scheme of life. During these days of high emotions and hateful rhetorical speech, it's easy to become ensnared in the collective turmoil. So let's be aware that we may not be feeling our own emotions, but those being sold to us by people who will benefit from our angst and division. Whatever the case, just love. It's not easy to understand each other under the best of circumstances, but with a pandemic and political unrest afoot, it can seem almost impossible. But it is not. Sometimes we may falter, but forgive yourself and begin again. We always get a second chance to be kind...
"If a career so great and good as that of Jesus could not avert a felon's fate, lesser apostles of Truth may endure human brutality without murmuring, rejoicing to enter into fellowship with him through the triumphal arch of Truth and Love." Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 40:19
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