Seed tomorrow with wise love today!
What would life be like if we became intentional and made yesterday’s Valentine’s Day focus on love a daily, lifetime commitment? Living in Michigan, with a daughter who loves her alma mater, Michigan State, the tragedy this week hit home, yet again.
I read and reread the relevant words of Martin Luther King with frustration, angst, and extreme anger at myself for finding it increasingly more difficult to react with genuine love:
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Or, perhaps we can ponder Elie Wiesel’s words. A Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor, Wiesel authored 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps:
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.
I’ll avoid elaborating my views on guns of plenty in this nation. I will express my outrage at our acceptance of corporate greed and political control that arms people with weapons of destruction that manifest fear and hate, obliterating love for those who experience their results. And, my intense concern for today’s obvious acceptance of discrimination, leading me to an ugly understanding of how fear, hate, and acceptance of white supremacy translated into concentration camps and murder of millions.
Love as an action. What does it look like to refuse to be indifferent? What do we need to address our fears? What does driving out darkness feel like? What does rejection of hate mean for all of us? These continuous tragedies reminds us of our collective consciousness. Can we challenge ourselves to become more skilled at understanding, compassionate, and loving? If not, the obvious alternative is currently playing itself out, violently and all too often.
Life is calling . . . Today’s the day!
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