United
in Love
“I
think...if it is true that there are as many minds as there are
heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”
Leo
Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)
I attended a vigil last
night at a church called Beloved Community. It was a prayer service
for those killed and injured in the Orlando shootings. Prayers were
said by pastors from the United Church of Christ, the United
Methodist Church, the Baptist Church, the Unitarian Church, the AME
Church, the Presbyterian Church, two rabbis, one Imam from the Islamic Mosque, one from the
Temple of the Goddess, and several others. Some of those clergy are
themselves members of the LGBTQ community. We prayed for peace, for
an end to gun violence, for the kind of love that allows us to live
in community with people who are different from us. We prayed for the
return of joy.
There is only one love.
That love takes many forms, and expresses itself in many ways. One
way is not superior to another, or inferior to another, because all
love comes from the same Source. When we judge others, we are not in
alignment with love. Whether we are followers of Yahweh, or Allah, or
Jesus, or Great Spirit, or Great Mother, or our Higher Self, the
Source of that love is one—the I AM. It is we humans who divide.
We are of many minds,
many opinions, many leanings. For the sake of the world, let us be
united in love.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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