As I say in "Born In The Wrong Country," --"Love is life, it's precious and adorning, it's a crown rich and poor alike can wear and be proud, for love is, and it knows no boundaries -- none. Love encompasses all of us, just allow yourself to feel, to feel the spirit and its warmth, and if you open up, it will take hold of you, if you just succumb to it."-- Those like minded people who are against Gay people and different ethnicities, against those with certain diseases, against those who are poorer, against those who aren't as literate, are the same kind of people that didn't make Jesus' stay a welcome one, and who later crucified him because of who he was and what he said.
Jesus was clear about loving everyone; that is why he was murdered by the same so-called Christians that enslaved the African people here in the United States of American, that hung, whipped, chained the same people, that condone hatred of your own children who are different from the so-called norm, that pay less wages to those who are not like the so-called upper class and that allows the government to in essence steal and cheat with insider trading, which is legal for them but not only is it illegal for you and I but can be punished by jail and or fines.
< http://insidertrading.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=001513>
It seems like Christianity and the United States of America make good bed fellows; they both seem to protect those whom they hold higher than many of the American people, the same way the Catholic Church has protected Priests that have raped little boys. Perhaps there's a reason why our government puts In God We Trust on the money that they print; perhaps it's their only real connection to God and Christianity. Unfortunately words aren't the connection that real Christianity calls for; real Christianity calls for love and respect, and those things aren't found in the vestments of the Clergy, the dogma of the Church, in the gold jewelry or in the stained glass windows of the very ornate Churches; it is also not found in the millions of dollars given to the Church by various Church goers or philanthropists.
Well here we are in 2012; when will we finally get it and bring about our own epiphany and begin to let the light that God has given us shine into this world? The late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. allowed the light that God gave him to shine, and of the books that he wrote, one was called "Strength To Love;" some of his quotes can be found online at <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.>
The thing about love that we must understand is that in order to love someone or something we need to practice it; the spark of love is generated from that intuitive feeling that God gives all of us, which comes from feeling good; love feels good and if we practice that feeling it will feel even better. It's like everything else; one can never be an accomplished speaker, pianist, writer, singer, dancer, artist, teacher, preacher, doctor or nurse unless they practice the things that are related to becoming those people; in doing those things over and over one becomes better; love works the same way. As a people we need to search our hearts and listen to what God says when it comes to love.
Christianity is about loving; I believe that when you don't love then you're committing a slow suicide because there is nothing to nurture your soul. Love is L ife, O pportunity , V oice and E xpression. Wake up and find the strength to love your sons, daughters and others who are different; they are God's gifts to you and to our world, that's what Christianity is all about.
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