Walk in Love.

Love is the only healing force in the world.

Love of God, self and neighbor.

As I meditated this morning I contemplated how much pain in our lives and world is caused by fear and hurt exhibiting itself as anger. I looked at my pain. When I am hurt I often exhibit anger but underneath the anger is hurt.

When I hold onto my anger; the hurt remains.
When I admit my hurt; the anger often dissipates.

Often our anger seems so justified.
I can easily rationalize screaming at someone in traffic who nearly hits me.

I was thinking of a particular family I know who some members haven’t spoken in years. The excuse is that two folks claim they have been wronged and are angry at one another, so rather than address their fear and hurt both men choose to remain angry. How senseless. Pride. Control. Killing themselves. It’s all fear and hurt.

Like the greatest band of all time, The Clash says, “anger can be power”; and man, do we use it. It seems so much easier to be angry rather than doing the deep work of naming our fears and hurt. I have found it takes tremendous courage to admit my fear and hurt. So we keep swallowing the poison hoping another will die.

I have spent a great deal of time on my knees pouring my soul out to God. I tell God all my hurt, anger and fear. I give God all the details. It helps... little by little.

I think anger gives me power and it feels like it at times, but my real power comes from love. It takes great courage and faith to love. Perfect love cast out fear.

It’s not about being a doormat. Jesus wasn’t a doormat.
He believed in love.

Was he right?

Sometimes though, no amount of faith or hope can dispel a fear and heal a hurt. Only love can do that.

What do we do when all the faith is gone?
What do we do when the hope seems to be evaporating?
The only thing that remains is love.
And the greatest of these is love.
Walk in love.