Love Opens Doors

If you aren't looking, you might miss it.

If you keep listening to the voices of others, you might be mislead.

For all the Bible says and doesn't say -

for all its stories and its complications

It tells of humans seeking answers

It doesn't smooth down the rough edges

It doesn't pinpoint the path

It guides us to wrestle and struggle and want

If only we have safe spaces to do so -

Safe spaces to ask the unsafe questions

To walk the path of these ancient tales in contemporary times

Asking like so many before us what it all means.

It is easy to get caught up in the "shalls" and the "shall nots"

and get overwhelmed and place that leather bound mammoth to the side.

Filled with intrigue and mystery and deceit and despair

Joy and gratitude and celebration and praise

And yet -

In these human stories of The Divine -

There is one repetition that keeps coming back.

If you aren't looking, you might miss it.

If you keep listening to the voices of others, you might be mislead.

Look closely - but know it doesn't take much looking to find it.

Pay attention - but know it is not hiding.

love.

Depending on your version - you may get love over 300 times - over 500 times - even over 800 times - in the pages of Holy Writ.

Did you know?

So many people insist on the hatred

The hurtful

The Us against Them.

But you can't love if you are focused on hating.

It takes too much energy

too much distraction

If it feels like too much

too big

too confusing

too complicated

Your best bet is to try love.

Love opens doors.

When you choose it

you are in good company -

God

Jesus

Paul

and many more

So give it a try

Make it your mantra

Hold it in your pocket so it is ready

to give generously

whenever you can.

If you aren't looking, you might miss it.

If you keep listening to the voices of others, you might be mislead.

But what you'll find

is that always...

Love opens doors.