“What we talk about when we talk about love” Raymond Carver

  Praying for my many Muslim friends locally and globally today, and trying to treat others as I would want to be treated. To love others, as I would want to be loved. In other words, trying to be a good student and friend of Jesus in these turbulent times. To emulate and participate in His Heart for one another.

 Praying also for the current and future David’s (those leaders moving in His Ways-both men and women) as they seek God’s heart and speak in the clarity, and boldness of truth these days. We need some MLK’s now, and some Dorothy Days. For, The law of love still applies. Maybe even more urgently now.

  Love is more than tolerance, it is proactive care, depth listening and tuning into sacrificial  empathy for those who are suffering, it is un-rejecting others in a proactive embrace from the heart, among other things. ( I Corinthians 13 lists the rest of what love implies; let’s actively conjoin with those attributes and attitudes of Christ in our times)). Let’s move in and dwell in the ways of Love’s ways today.

  Let’s open the heart’s harbors, allowing Him to tear down the walls of division (within ourselves and our world) and be models of God’s overt overture and boundlessly sacrificial and incarnational love in our particular chapter of the long story. “For God so loved the world…” and so should we. The rest is history. Let’s love in our hour of opportunity on earth. For the tone of love changes the atmosphere, and re-contextualizes the conversation! Love is our practice, and Love still matters. Anyway, praying for our human family today! As we are all cousins.