all we need is love

so much has been going on in the last few weeks i can scarcely breathe long enough to get them straight in my head, let alone blog about them.

to me, i feel as though i have been quiet, save for posting non-controversial things over the last few weeks (months?) because i don't have the wherewithall to duke things out any more.

does this mean it is time for me to stop blogging? i am uncertain. i have found less than charitable things coming out of the blogs i have long admired...i don't even know how to put it into words, but it is discouraging to me as a Christian (and Catholic, truth be told) and i find i am led to more quiet places, more blogs that encourage and inspire. i have a difficult time with controversy and one-up-man/woman-ship.

i am changing, from the inside out. they say change is good, right?

the spiritual path i am being led down simply leads me to believe and say that there is so much more loving we have to do as a people and less condemnation of others, fortunate or less fortunate alike. there are so many rules and regulations that i am grappling with and all that keeps coming up in me is what Jesus said: I give you a new commandment: love one another as I have loved you.

how do you define love?

Jesus loved us -- He still loves us. He is infinitely patient with us; He never strays, He never fails. we become impatient, we stray, we fail. time and again.

how can we be more attentive to this thing called love? we can give deference to our partner (child, neighbor)...we can exercise patience and put away our impatience...we can step out of our own self to see that the needs of those around us are fulfilled...stop the backbiting - do we want to be right or want to love? maybe, just maybe we can step out of our own box and put away our apathy and perhaps get to know those who we have so many issues with. perhaps we can swap complacency with action?

we can stop judging.

stop.
judging.

start loving.