As so many people are trying to make sense of our world right now many things are being thrown around. More guns, less guns. More government, less government. More God in schools, less… More this, more that. I actually have been shocked by the number of people who in taking sides with their issue have specifically insulted someone ‘on the other side” or made fun of the other side by posting things on social media. Have we not learned anything?
Nobody feels good when they are pegged as an outsider, when they are viewed as wrong. When they are made fun of or called names. Nobody decides to “switch sides” because someone posted something negative or pushy. It never happens. Yet it continues as people try to argue their point as the only right way.
Our world will heal when we come from a place a love. A place where loving each other fully and honestly is more important than taking sides and thinking we are right.
Our world will heal when we understand that love is more powerful than anything else. Our world will heal when we act out of love verses fear. Fear drives people apart. Fear destroys trust, it destroys respect.
I believe that deep down each of us values the same things in life. Love, Life and Family. If we didn’t value these things at our core, the events of the last week would not have broken our hearts so much.
At our core, everyone values life. How we protect that value of life is different, but at our core we all value life and wish to entire world would live in love.
I once heard a speaker say that everything is done out of love or out of a desire for love. When people are disconnected from love they can do destructive things to get attention. In our culture getting attention is sometimes confused as a way of getting love. What if we gave people attention for the things they were doing right? Their strengths? Instead of pointing out their weaknesses?
When we get disconnected from love as a society we start drawing lines and making boxes, we start trying to prove a point. We start making comments and living from a negative mindframe.
If we are honest with ourselves we know that all of us have felt like an outsider at one point in our lives. We have all felt the sting of being an outsider.
Now I ask you, think of a time that you felt the fullness, the patience, the amazing presence of LOVE. Did you bask in that love for a long enough moment to realize that feeling made you feel like the most important person on this earth?
Are you not the most important person on this earth? You have something INCREDIBLE to contribute. Something that only you bring to this world. Something so magical that it was saved only for you. Something so amazing that if you forget to unwrap your gift you might feel that nagging sense that there is more to life.
What if you followed your gift? What if you lived up to your greatest potential? What if you gave back to the world through your gift? How would that change the world?
Your gift comes in the form of love. In the form of passion. In the form of giving back to the world.
Many people have asked the question, “What is the meaning of life?” What if the meaning of life was to act in love? For when we are our best selves, we bring out not only the best in ourselves, but the best in others. Being our best selves comes from a place of love.
Love has it’s advantages. As humans, when we contribute to society in a loving way, that is when we feel valued, that is what builds our confidence, that is what makes us grow and gives that spark for living each day to it’s fullest.
So I challenge you to find your gift, to see the gifts that others have in this world. To embrace each other in love -To not react in fear, but to reach out to others in love. Be your best self~
With love,
~Summer Joy
P.S. A few years ago I published, the i love me! book as a way for kids and parents to reconnect to love~
Here’s a sneak peak…
Leave A Response