Why are we here?

We are all here, struggling to live up to the values we share, so join the crowd.  Join the band of everyday folks falling down and getting up again, failing, trying, often shining with compassion and kindness, sometimes backsliding into pettiness and fear.  Welcome to being human.  Do our best, right where you are to love someone into healing…   you don’t need to walk through fire or pass any tests to be a love warrior.  You simply say yes.  That’s why you’re here.

          Jacqui Lewis (Fierce Love, p. 136)

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Why are we here?

 

Why?

 

Everyone has an answer!

For some life is all about winning, controlling, dominating.

For some life is about protecting.

For some life is about accumulating.

 

After all the one with the most power

and the most toys wins!!!

Right?

 

The role models of this perspective abound

and we see their tortured posturing daily

as they lie and ferment fear and hate

these people who not only tell lies

but live a lie

 

for they are lying to themselves

that this life they are leading is why they are here

 

that this way of hate and cruelty

control, retribution, and punishment

has anything to do with what it means

to be a successful human

 

Imago Dei indeed

 

Why are we here?

To love God and enjoy God forever?  Yes!!!

But in loving God to be loved by God

And being loved by God to love and value ourselves

And being filled with love and joy (as only those in love can be)

to love others

 

Oh yeah!

We fail!  Often!

 

We fall, we get up.

We fail, we succeed.

We are loving one moment and a complete jerk the next.

We are kind and then cruel.

 

We listen to the wrong people

Believe the wrong things.

We choose poorly.

 

But through it all, we are loved fiercely by God

We are filled with God’s acceptance

and we have the capacity

to love others

 

All we need to do is say yes!

 

Yes! As Abram said “yes”

Yes! As Moses said “yes”

Yes! As David said “yes”

Yes! As Mary said “yes”

Yes! As Jesus said “yes”

Yes! As Peter said “yes”

And Paul too

 

We need a few “No’s” too

As Jesus said “No”

No to the lure of power

No to the lure of accumulation

No, sometimes, to safety

No to the liars and manipulators

 

But mostly we need to say “yes”

And we need to let our “yeses” overcome our “no’s”

Yes, to Love

And yes, again and again

For that is why we are here