Yes, I am on a soapbox today ~ about all the protesting, rioting, homesexual and transgender issues, and the liberal “live and let live” idiology going around with the media having a hayday exploiting it. So, I’ll warn you ahead of time, if you think you can’t handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
We cannot be deceived by the headlines, the posters of protest and the rhetoric of the media exploiting the true meaning of LOVE. Love is not ALL that matters. Moral values are the foundation for real love. Chaos is what happens when law and order and rules are not followed or inforced. And might I add – taught!
As human beings, like it or not, there are rules that must be followed in order to keep, well, order, sanity and peace. Something we all profess to want. The very foundation for laws, rules and order sprang from the 10 Commandments, did they not? I understand it was a hard pill to swallow even then, thousands of years ago. Apparently, it still is.
But without rules and laws and the people who inforce them, close your eyes and imagine a world without them. Really, take a minute to do this.
And, as I’m saying this, I am not excusing or condoning any behvior or person on earth, no matter the position they hold as parent, sibling, military authority, political leader, ethinic group, church authority, or any other person in a position over another who steps over the line and causes unethical abuse!
So, back to the main question:
Is LOVE and all it’s drippy drama all that really matters and law and order do not?
Some thoughts on an internet video I recently viewed:
“If a man thinks he can marry another man because they have “fallen in love” and a
woman thinks she can marry another woman because they profess to love one another, then what’s to soon stop a father who wants to marry his teenage daughter or a mother from marrying her young son whom she “loves” with all her heart? And why can’t people marry multiple partners because they profess to be “in love” with many? “
Also, isn’t it breaking the moral code that we have passed laws that it’s ok to kill unborn babies and, in some cases, the elderly no longer of use? THIS is Love? Do we really want to live in a world where a government and a society backs all this up?
Do we really want to march “peacefully” to get everyone’s attention, knowing full well that the very worst could happen and at the least, someone or many are going to be inconvenienced by the very people who are protesting because they have been “inconvenienced” or worse? Is this how to mindfully handle the need for change, or is it just a good way to go national and say “Hey, this is Me, listen to ME!”
The word LOVE gets thrown around alot these days, but I think many people mistake love for an emotion they feel. Love is not a feeling. It is not about having or getting what we want. Love is not about SELF. Love is about OTHER. GOD IS LOVE. He has never been about “self”. He has always been about “us”. “Love one another as I have loved you” comes to mind, in the most self-sacrificing way and nailed to a cross.
The bottom line: TRUE LOVE is about following the rules, not making up our own.
~ Gwen of IRISH ACRES
AMEN. AMEN. AMEN.