What's Important

Someone said my words have been a blessing.

That is why I write them.

We need each other.  Badly.  We live our lives, rushing from one responsibility to the next, trying to do the best we can, often giving until there is nothing left.  It leaves us feeling exhausted, used up, and irritable.  We wonder when someone will give to us as much as we give to others.  It isn't fair, we sometimes think.

It isn't fair.  No one ever said this was about being fair.  As the Bare Naked Ladies say, "I think it's time to make this something more than only fair."

We need something more than fair.  We need love.

Fair doesn't even exist within the realm of love.  Love is so much greater than fair.

Think of God's amazing love.  Nothing fair about that, eh?

It's time for a paradigm shift.  It's time for a change in our understanding.

When we love, we experience love.  When we open ourselves up to communicating our need for love, we experience love.  Love is unlike anything our human minds can comprehend.  We see the world in terms of limited resources.  Love is something completely different.  It is in loving, even during the hard, awful, and painful parts, that we are saved from the harsh realities of life.

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.  If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.  If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing...[Love] always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails."


Let's love each other, shall we?

No one gets out of this game alive.  And all these things we think are so damn important....well, they aren't.  A hundred years from now, will any of this matter?

Love will still matter.

Remember what's important.

Sincerely,
Jennifer