Spiritual Love is the Answer

By Anonymous -
Why? It is because it is self-giving and not self-centered, as is human love.  This is the love that can change the world. The more you love your brothers and sisters, the more you care about them.  This leads you to accepting personal responsibility for their quality of life and to ensuring their God-given human freedoms.

Spiritual love is a decision – a movement of the free will.  By not actively deciding for spiritual love, you are, by default, deciding against it.  A neutral position does not exist.  By your silence and/or apathy you become part of the problem, inhibiting those of us who have accepted the personal responsibility to change our world.

It’s time to stop denying, rationalizing, and avoiding how disgusted we are with the condition of our world.

Your words are of little help – they disappear quickly because they do not have the substance of action behind them.

It is only through your actions that you can join in and contribute to an effort to redefine relationships between peoples and their governments.

For those who have become part of changing the “Big Picture” they quickly see that there is “strength in numbers” and that the “whole is greater than the sum of its parts”.

Each of us needs to define an area for themselves that they feel strongly about.  Then, we need to become active participants; “Walking the Walk” that we are talking.

We have allowed the condition of the world to greatly deteriorate on “our watch”. Don’t you think we should begin to “clean-up” our own mess for the sake of those who will inherit planet earth?

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  1. Melanie Jean Juneau2:27 pm, October 17, 2013

    great post.

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  2. Anonymous4:48 pm, October 17, 2013

    although the content is "given" I feel pretty good about my typing - I think it's getting a bit better.

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