Any time we need some ancient Wisdom, we reach back for some ancient stories–or so it seems.
This is an old Hasidic tale about what took place very shortly after the magnificent Exodus. The Hebrew folks had just dramatically and safely crossed over through the Red Sea, and as easily imagined, they were celebrating their new found freedom and the complete obliteration of the Egyptian army.
It was then that they felt this great
A B S E N C E
This great LACK had an eerie Silence to it.
It was then the Hebrew people felt, recognized God was not present.
The murmur grew into a loud wondering:
“WHERE IS GOD?”
The Answer came back even more powerfully:
GOD IS NOT HERE BECAUSE HE IS OFF BY HIMSELF, WEEPING. . .
YOU SEE, MANY THOUSANDS OF HIS CHILDREN DROWNED TODAY. . . .
W E
actually think we KNOW what LOVE is. . .
It’s all Valentine’s Day and Wedding Bells, and Goo-Goo eyes and hand-holding and wet kisses. . .
it’s much dirtier, much more filthy, broken, shattered and discolored than any Fifty Shades of White, Black or Gray.
Martin Luther King, Jr. once said,
“I MOURN THE LOSS/DEATHS OF 1000’S AND REJOICE NOT OVER THE DEATH OF ONE!”
More and more there’s a vast growing amount of people who’ve had it with people in cloistered halls professing love and showing the exact opposite.
The NONES, those who have expressed
N O N E
when asked, “What religious affiliation are you?”
may be more in tune of the Broken hearts which still beat than all of the other “LOVERS”
The SHORT
may be the LONGEST part of it:
I, like so many others, on scheduled days of Love and all of the others leading up to and away from IT
am expressing disapproval over any groups who fail to L O V E people whom the great
THOU WHO IS FOREVER
never stops loving. . . .
You?
Happy
Saint
Valentine’s
LOVE should not be a selective process. That is why HWR is so blessed to have you serving among us. Notice I said “serving”…because it is not work when it’s done well. Best to you and your lovely Erin.
Sounds like YOU KNOW a little something about LOVE and SERVING, Ms Bonnie–well done, WELL DONE, as always!