Dealing

H,

The easiest thing about the golden rule is saying it out loud. It is often said out loud and about others. It is quoted on stairs between two people, where one is the giver of wisdom and the bowing other the receiver of grand wisdom. It, however, belongs in the silence mostly. It belongs as a whisper, a prayer and a song in your own heart. You probably need it more than any of the others you keep pushing it on as wisdom when it is just avoidance. When I say you, I mean me. To be clear.

Dealing with others in love is the whole game of living out a godly life. There is nothing else that shows our devotion to God than the way we treat others. It is at the fulcrum of the whole machine of change, eternal life and what love truly is. This is the guiding light and the divider between sinner and saint. When the bible says: “if you do not forgive, you will not be forgiven”, it means exactly that.

It seems harsh but community is what we are made for. To be joined to one another and not be alone. To do this and not be any less of an individual is the journey we are on.

There is no need deifying individuality. It is a thing but it is not everything. We are human in relation to each other. We exist in relation to each other. We make sense in relation to each other. The Kingdom is a family and if you love being alone then that is one more thing that will change when the trumpet sounds.

So we have this to deal with now. That we are not better than anyone else. That we all exist in the same flawed and broken down body of work that is fallen life on earth.

 We are equal. We are equal. We are equal. No one is a supporting character, an audience or a subordinate in this story of life. We are connected and should act that way. Kindness, patience, long suffering, forgiveness (and on and on and on) are not ancient ideas. When we reflect them in and on each other, we are creating a revolution. We are speaking timelessly. We are in a new heaven and on a new earth.