Thoughts 1

While I was not planning on using bible verses on this blog, I have re-thought that idea. The bible is a big part of my life, and there is something I want to share with my readers that I learned from the bible. I am not saying that anyone has to agree with me or that anyone has to believe in the bible. I am using these verses to show where I received the knowledge of giving. This post shows how I have expanded on that idea. I want to reinforce that this blog and the people who subscribe to it are not necessarily Christian. Also, this blog is not affiliated to any one religion, while some people including myself may have ties to one faith or another. This blog is about the universal truth of goodness, what we can do to help others, and expanding our own knowledge of spiritual truth.

For Reference:
The verses that I draw these ideas from are Matthew 22:34-40; Mark 12:28-34; Luke 10:25-37

For this post I am going to use Matthew 22: 34-40 due to its short length.
' But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked  him a question to test him. "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?" And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord Your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself." On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets." '

Since I have read them, these verses have been a very strong foundation of my faith. While I am not perfect at it, I try my best to love the Lord my God with all my heart and with all my soul and with all my mind. Again, I am not perfect, but I try my best to love my neighbor as myself.

Now to talk about the second commandment in this verse. If I love my neighbor as myself, would I withhold a need they have if I had the extra in my life that they need? If you have not guessed, this is a question I ask you to pose to yourself and answer for yourself. I imagine that your answer will be the same as mine. No, if I love my neighbor as myself I would not withhold anything I had the ability to give them that they needed.

Now comes the tough part, loving our neighbors as ourselves. This took me a long time but for me, the closer I grew to God the closer I grew to people. The really funny thing about that is the second commandment is in my experience near impossible without first working at the first one. In order to love our neighbors as ourselves, we must first love God with all our heart.

"All the love in life flows from God." This is my belief and I am going to speculate on it even though some may not agree and I may be wrong. I am not going to speculate on it in this post but the next one. Thoughts and Beliefs 2

True Love

A touch of true love, what could that be worth? Real caring, who could that help, maybe someone about to give up on life. The truth is true love is the love we have for a complete stranger. One that does not have the ability to return what we give them. To that person that touch of true love would be a lot, probably more than anyone else has ever given them. What is that touch, surely not just words, give your prayer but go beyond that, truly share your heart. Share it with a person who is hungry by filling their stomach with food. Share it with the single mom by reaching out a helping hand. Share it with the homeless person by putting a roof over their head. Share it with people in need and watch your heart fill with love indeed. If you are the person sitting at home with more than you need but lack in love, this prescription is from above. A giving heart has no needs, and people who need help is where you plant your seeds.

Life

“Life”, what an improbable thing, a beautiful cascade of unlimited power and ability, wonderful, touching; a gift that was given in unimaginable wisdom. Looking at the world we are capable of such beautiful things, capable of learning from each other in a way that could only have been given. Every person, no two exactly alike, how could one even dream of such beauty. The interactions between people of different abilities, perceptions, and knowledge; such an unlikely diversity. What a beautiful world we live in, what a gift.

If we could only touch the possibilities of our ability to be givers, putting aside selfishness, pride, and self righteousness; we would find ourselves somewhere beautiful. What a disadvantage we have, to look at people as competition rather than building blocks to a future not thought of. Everyone stands before many roads but we as people have begun to see in darkness and have become blind in light. Even though there is a grim world before so many, the knowledge of salvation rests in one relationship. A relationship to the light of the entire world; a hand waiting to be grasped.

Looking at the state of the world now it is hard to see why the creator decided to speak this world into existence. Yet, the potential to do so many things rests in some misunderstood ideas that have the power to change so many people’s lives. He saw the potential, he saw that some would love and decided He was not willing to give up a few beautiful lovers for a dirty corrupt world. Amazing he came and touched the foundations of this world, he gave life to the dead, sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and healing to the sick. Come alive and reach for the free gift given to all people. A world you do not know is waiting to be discovered. Ask and you will receive, knock and the door will be opened, seek and you will find. Do not believe blindly but with knowledgeable understanding.