"You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. Exodus 20:13-16 [NIV]
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. John 13:34 [NIV]
I love you, I love you all, I love you so much and I want to do good things for all of you. And the best thing possible would be if you all loved one another, all the time. What a great world that would be. How would you feel if you knew that everyone you met all day would treat you with love? How good would it be to live in a world with kindness instead of violence, loyalty instead of cheating, giving instead of stealing and honesty instead of lying?
Now I am not saying that you don’t. I can see that some of the time many of you are very loving and some of you do some really heroically loving things but of course I am not blind and it is obvious that love is something you do have problems with for various reasons.
And I think there is only one reason for that. You don’t know how much I love you. If you did, you would find it so much easier to pass that on and to be loving to others. You might even find it in your hearts to be loving to your enemies because love really can overcome hatred. Keep trying, you’re doing so well and you are getting better. The more of you who get it right, the better this world will be for everyone.
So I will keep on saying it ‘I LOVE YOU’ and then maybe you will find it easier to stop hurting each other with these unloving behaviours.
Love
pp Sheree Burgess
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