Hi Cody,
I read your very well written words about LOVE.
I agree but I am seeing to much hatred and fear even amongst friends. Where in the heck and when do we get to practice our faith that we have had poured into us? Who is going to actually sit in VA and love on those hate-filled people?
I feel like the eclipse did the same chaos as when Jesus died on the cross and the sky went black. How did the things I remember from my childhood reawaken and start again? Was it during the night? Is it a leader who said hate-filled things in his campaign that opened the doors for it to rebirth?
I cannot stand it. I was alive for much of the segregation's, the beatings, the disappearances, the riots, the nonacceptance of the one, solo black kid in our school. Although he was a champion at everything, he recently shared how hatred still reigned. It broke my heart because I did not see in color.
We are made for these times. We are to be the leaders of love and be the skin of Christ and be the Light. I wish we would like in my hippy days, start a flood down State Street of a “Love In”. Show people the opposite of what the media is drumming on us each day. (I wish they would not show and give credence to anything that smacks of intolerance- imagine that!).
We absolut4ely must learn that we cannot sit idly. We must be the Leaders of Love sharing that all were made in Christs image and no one is better than an other.
Let us start now
Deborah Barnes