A Sign of Love

What if … we are to be nothing more than a simple sign – a sign among thousands of others?  And the sign says this – Love Is Possible. 

Everybody loves love.  Everybody wants to be loved.  Yet we wonder if love will ever find our world, much less our own heart and little life that we live out on this planet.

Racial strife is heard in many quarters of our world.

Wars and rumors of wars abound.

Nations war against nations.

Brothers raise their arms against brothers.

Sisters tear each other apart.

We’ve lost a healthy image of what love is all about.  And where do we find a great model of what love looks like? 

Perhaps you and I can become tiny signs showing that love is possible.  Perhaps we can begin a revolution of lovers dispelling the current mindset that there can only be racial warfare.

Perhaps we can model that this world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and the oppressed.

I’m speaking to those of us who profess the label “Christian”.  I’m calling all of us to lay aside our denominational interpretations and get to the bigger issue of demonstrating a lifestyle of love.

In Matthew 22:36-40, we are reminded of this:

Jesus is asked to name the greatest commandment. His reply?  Love God with all your heart, soul, and mind.  This is first.  And then, love your neighbor as you love yourself.  All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Mother Theresa said this:

“We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work.  We have been created in order to love and to be loved.”

Jean Vanier puts this into perfect prose.

“We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviors. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class and racial warfare is not inevitable.”

How can you and I possibly be a sign of love?

~Give a genuine smile to everyone you meet.

~Find more ways to praise than to complain.

~Look for the good in every person and every situation.

~If offended, be quick to forgive, slow to retaliate.

~Offer a helping hand.

~Be quick to love.

~Be the first to speak a kind word of hello.

Small signs of love for sure, however, small gestures build one upon another and the message gets out. 

Sooner than soon, perhaps we will marvel at what a true UNITED STATES OF AMERICA we really are.

And then, when it spreads to other lands and across the waters of the world, my goodness – we will experience a revolution of LOVE!

Now wouldn’t that be something?

P Michael Biggs

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