I know that there is an abundance of people who may have the opportunity to read this blog that are searching for an answer. Whether that answer be the end of poverty, world peace, or something equally pressing, there is one answer to satisfy all the questions, all the criminal queries and social injustices.
To put it bluntly, the answer is love.
Every human soul yearns for perfect love. Love is the human purpose. We need a love to complete us and satisfy the bottomless hole in our hearts that aches for affection and acceptance. We seach for love in all kinds of places, various faces and hope to find the right One. More often than not, we look in the wrong identities. Humans make very poor decisions when they are unloved.
This is the stem of crime, of abuse, and ethical wrong. Some of these include prostitution, abortion, divorce, drug and alcohol abuse, adultery, gang violence, and rape. These can all be categorized as impure substitutes for love or consequences of a lack of satisfying love. Without love, we are helpless and hopeless. We make poor decisions; decisions that are based not on world prosperity or the good of the people, but decisions that are based on selfish wants, corrupt ideas, and contaminated thought processes. Basing our decisions on imperfect ideas generates imperfect consequences.
In order to solve the world's problems, I suggest love. Love your neighbor. Maybe if America loved her neighbors a little bit more, the world would be that much closer to achieving the end of poverty. Love each other. If young couples had more pure love and respect for each other and for their futures (not to mention the future of their offspring), they might decide to prevent unwanted pregnancies that lead to abortion.* If husbands and wives were more devoted to each other, the rate of divorce in America wold surely go down. Declining divorce rates would cause homelessness to decline. (A married person is less likely to be homeless than an unmarried person.) There wouldn't be as many orphans. Also, there would be less single mothers struggling to provide for their children. If people loved one another, they would give unreservedly to those in need, evening out the distribution of the world's resources, financial and natural. Human love does good work.
But there is another love - a perfect love - that works miracles.
One love to satisfy the nations and bring exiled souls into the light and presence of mercy.
We cannot solve the world's problems alone. We need a greater power. Never in the history of the world has an entire population come to agreement on faith, but I am calling for utopia. I ask the nations of the world to accept and believe. If you want to change the world, you have to be willing to ask for help.
In order to improve our generation and generate a healthier, happier world, every human soul is responsible for finding the One true love. The One true love is a finite identity. The One true love is in each of us. His love is the love that unites, that comforts, that calls to action, that has compassion for the weary, the poor and unloved. His love is the infinite definition of the word. Love is the word. The word is God.
I believe with all my heart and soul that God is the God of the universe and that he is actively working in the world. If you can't see him, you haven't opened your eyes. I am asking for you to open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, for it is only then that the light may shine into you.**
* Abortion is a touchy subject. I respect both pro-lifers and pro-choicers. I believe, however, that abortion was not in God's plan for us. I think he wants his babies, and I think he wants us to take care of them. Please remember, those of you whom my position on abortion offends, my stance on abortion is not the main issue of this post.
**Matthew 6:22 THE MESSAGE http://www.studylight.org/
Your blog really touched something within me...I've been dwelling on similar thoughts for a long time now. And I also believe that Love truly is the answer, and that God is love.
And that's comin' at ya' from yer local redneck hippie.
Aw, that was nice.
The early paragraphs made me recall the song "All We Need Is Love". It played in my head like soundtrack music while I read your blog.
Although I mostly agree with what you're saying, some things didn't quite work. Like "If husbands and wives were more devoted to each other"... seems to suggest the olden times wife who is literally a slave to her husband, forced into marriage and forced into "love". To put this bluntly, shouldn't couples know if they love each other before going all the way into a marriage? You can't save a marriage if the people aren't right for each other.
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Absolutely! I lament all the marriages that have taken place between people who aren't right for each other. People really ought to know whether or not they love each other/are going to be devoted to each other for the rest of their lives before they marry. I don't think anyone ought to be forced to marry, as you also said. Sadly, divorce is another reality due to human imperfections and will probably always exist. Utopia is only possible if we work with a perfect power.
Leslie
If husbands and wives were more devoted to each other, the rate of divorce in America wold surely go down. Declining divorce rates would cause homelessness to decline. (A married person is less likely to be homeless than an unmarried person.) There wouldn't be as many orphans. Also, there would be less single mothers struggling to provide for their children. If people loved one another, they would give unreservedly to those in need, evening out the distribution of the world's resources, financial and natural. Human love does good work.
If we really loved one another, we wouldn't look to marriage to save people from poverty, because we know that not everyone can be married at all times. Some people have mental illnesses, addictions, and other problems that make them poor candidates for marriage. And then some people just don't want to be married, ever. Society should have an adequate safety net for everyone, even if they're not married. That is the mark of a truly compassionate, civilized society.
I believe with all my heart and soul that God is the God of the universe and that he is actively working in the world. If you can't see him, you haven't opened your eyes. I am asking for you to open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, for it is only then that the light may shine into you.
My eyes are open wide in wonder and belief, but what I see is a Goddess, not a Christian God.
Abortion is a touchy subject. I respect both pro-lifers and pro-choicers. I believe, however, that abortion was not in God's plan for us. I think he wants his babies, and I think he wants us to take care of them. Please remember, those of you whom my position on abortion offends, my stance on abortion is not the main issue of this post.
And I believe that abortion is definitely in Goddess' plan for us; that's why pregnancy happens within the privacy of women's bodies. If society were meant to have a say in the incubation of fetuses, women would lay eggs, like birds. Then anyone could incubate any fertilized egg.
But since pregnancy happens inside women's bodies, and pregnancy places a large burden on women's bodies, women naturally get to choose not to carry a pregnancy to term, and governments have no business trying to stand in their way.
It's a reality that we find easy to believe, but hard to grasp. Love your neighbor? How is that possible, when we live in a world, that hides behind garage doors and email? There are simple things, that express the well being of people.
Why not, let the person with 3 items check out in front of you, sure you only have 4 things, but why not be generous? What's 2 more minutes?
Why not take notice of the family next door, and in your neighborhood and when you rake your leaves, rake theirs as well, or do you have the lawn mower out? Well what's one more yard?
The extreme is realizing that everyone, and I mean everyone, looks for opportunities to be accepted. To be loved. To be wanted. As a nation we jump to fix the problems of other nations, when down our own street, we ignore the helpless family that can barely put dinner on the table.
What a great concept to love! I suggest starting by opening the blinds and taking notice of the things outside the world our eyes see.