Luke 6:27 … To LOVE like we Do (05/29/15)
“As much as we would like to do so, we cannot force others to see Love as we do … We cannot force others to let go of their fears, to become vulnerable to real intimacy, or humbly attempt to walk the Truth of LOVE from the perspective of the OTHER … No, most of us prefer to see only how different those other’s shoes are — or how “ugly” — or how “heretical” — or how “untrue”. Instead of having the courage to slip that footwear on for awhile to see firsthand (actually, “first Heart”) the hard and yet-often-beautiful miles they have tread, we judge the wearers of those coverings as “enemy” or “dangerous” or “evil”. And as a result, real enmity is created, real danger is engendered and real evil grows ever stronger.
Well my choice is a different one … My choice is to live an OTHER-centered LOVE — even towards my enemies; even towards those “dangerous”; even towards “evil”. This at-times self-sacrificial courage is not the comfortable choice, that is true, and yet this Narrow Way is truly the only choice we have that allows the Friend in every enemy to reemerge; the Peace in every clear and present danger to shine anew; the Good to blossom forth from everyone seemingly malicious.
I understand that this view is quite unpopular. I get that I just don’t fit in, and I humbly admit — I don’t want to. Because in the moments that we do “fit in” — the moments that we do complain about our enemies or establish “healthy boundaries” against them or attack evil in “self-defense”, it is not LOVE we are living and it is not LOVE we will create — no, in such moments of reasonable fear and self-centered reactions thereto, it is self-preservation we are living, and it is fear & fear alone that we bring forth and strengthen.
My Friends, I can wholeheartedly assure you that when you make LOVE an active & conscient choice, you require no protection. And I can equally assure you that if you choose the easier path — if you attempt to defend or to preserve or to protect or to build up yourself via your own version of “Love”, then thereby you will fully deny LOVE’s magnificent brilliance — and you will actually prevent LOVE from doing what LOVE always ultimately does … which is WIN!” ~ inspired by Vanessa Curley
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.” ~ Jesus Christ (Luke 6:27)
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