Love is All You Need

One day, someone I didn't know asked me, "What is your religion?" Not wanting to go into a long soliloquy about how I believe like a Christian, but have so many issues with the modern church that I hesitate to identify myself as one, I simply said, "Love." Luckily, they pressed no further (with the exception of a "May Jesus bless you!" at the end of our conversation, said as if a plea for my soul), but I started thinking about it more extensively than I had before. God is love. We are to be like Him, so we, too, are to be love. It's not that hard. We are commanded to love God with all our hearts, and to love our neighbor as ourself. It may just be my hippie sensibilities, but I can see nothing more important. Think about it. Imagine if we all lived by those two things in every aspect of our lives. What kind of world would this be if we each selflessly showed infinite respect to each person, just because we are all God's creations?