photo credit: Aaron Springston
The Ten Commandments were created to tell people what is right and what is not. I prefer Jesus's two great commandments, love your neighbor and God, because when we look to Spirit to guide and govern every action, there is no need for a multitude of laws to tell us how to and how not to do everything. For instance, laws which attempt to tell us how to and how not to love. There's a television series called "Big Love" which takes a look into the everyday lives of Mormon polygamists. In the United States, polygamy is illegal. When we hear accounts of cruel men with 20 wives and 100 children, it seems this decree is just. But when the beauty of deep Love is illustrated in a multiple-marriage situation, it seems not only plausible but admirable. In any situation, love needn't be legislated, it must be truly expressed. We all know of situations where children, animals, all things living, are abused by others, and no law we make stops those horrors. We can't legislate morality, but the powers that be continue to try to do so. Each and every one of us has the ability to govern ourselves in a manner which blesses all the world. I realize it sounds simplistic, but maybe it shouldn't be so difficult to just be nice. Namaste, dear Ones...
“The serpent of God’s creating is neither subtle nor poisonous, but is a wise idea, charming in its adroitness, for Love’s ideas are subject to the Mind which forms them, — the power which changeth the serpent into a staff.” Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 514:4-9
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