Prove Love
(And while you’re at it, approve and improve it too)
Love is a committed affection.
A fostering of favoring.
A tenacious tenderness.
So how do we prove love?
Find the better parts of our humanity and purposely lead with them.
Don’t wait to express yourself until your reaction is frustration or anger. Speak up when you know that your words will still be saturated with mercy. Make love your first choice and your last choice.
And while you’re at it, approve the love you see in others.
Isolate off those friends who are daring to believe in the simplicity of caring.
Feel free to ridicule those who come along to limit the power of belief and mock the sentimentality of emotion.
And then improve it.
Don’t be satisfied with a religion that talks only of God in heaven and is of no earthly good.
Don’t feel that your expressions of faith and wishfulness should be abandoned simply because they did not dent the surface of cruelty the first time around.
Talk about a God who loves us in the moment instead of watching us from afar, waiting for eternity. Improve love.
And if you can’t find anyone to join you in this quest, then prove love to them.
Approve the love you see in them.
And gently show them how to improve the love they think is too weak to stand in an arrogant world.
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