What kind of world do you want? . . . . History starts now.
Ever think about how we might affect each person that we meet?
I think we forget we’re not invisible until we want to be cared for – our ethics are based more on our convenience rather that what is good for others.
Ok, I can only speak for myself . . . seems I find myself doing this quite a bit and I know it’s less than ideal. . . In the end, though, it is the ideals that we hold that help guide us to a better life.
What then is the ideal for us?
It’s a big question . . . but it’s my belief that Jesus simplified this and it’s religion that has lost this message in the end.
At his last supper with his disciples he prayed a prayer for all who would believe in him: “that they may all be one; even as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me.” (John 17:21)
I think one critical error with many people’s view of religion is that it’s counter intuitive to Jesus’s actual vision . . . Jesus’s last prayer was about unity and us becoming a community, to care not just forourselves
We desire having an “US”and we want a “THEM”. This is a terrible illusion we crave to believe.
We want an “US” so we can justify treating and seeing others as them – the people who are not “US.”
It provides a false solace.
In the end we are just “US.”
We want definitions, it’s what we do. We feel if we can define something, we have some power over it. We want to have control.
We want to set up line items to define who is good and who is evil and who we let in and who we keep out.
To talk about who is going to heaven or hell is totally pointless and it divides us, working against Jesus’s vision for who we are to be . . . .
There is only “US”. We are one. The one’s who do not see this may be lost, but they are still with us regardless.
We are to be there for the lost and here to help each other.
Our one commandment is to Love above all else.
And Love does not live in a building . . .
Love is real and it’s there when we choose to put our egos and false sense of plans aside and see the need of others and choose to serve
We are conditioned to ask, “What’s in it for me?”
The truth is: Everything.
What sort of world do you really want to live in?
We have the choice to make it so.
If you ask, who is God?
It’s simple, God is Love.
Love is a choice and it’s up to us to choose to love or not love.
To Love sounds simple, but we are all scared to love first.
This is where it takes faith . . .
It’s not a feeling.
Jesus’s message was simple and if we really want a better world, we are to Love.
We are all somebody and we are all together.
It begins with us.
It begins with the choices and actions we make every day.
What kind of world do you want?
Make a choice.
History starts now.
