“….let me sow love;”

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.” *

The so-called Peace Prayer known as a Christian prayer, certainly identifies our desire to be and express love, peace, pardon, faith, hope, light and joy, doesn’t it? And it begins correctly by turning to God to assure us of our love for God and our love for others, and to remind us of our responsibility to love and live the life of obedience to Christ Jesus ‘ new commandment, “That ye love one another as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”  ** ( After two thousand plus  years, one would think we’d  be better at this.)

Regardless of the hatred, Jesus was love. Mrs. Eddy tells us, “The divine must overcome the human at every point.” Then she writes,”Love must triumph over hate. Truth and Life must seal the victory over death…”  Jesus “proved Life to be deathless and Love to be the master of hate.” ***  Love is the master of hate. Where Love is, there can literally be no hate.

All these experiences that cry out in our world are cries for love, as sourced in divine Love. That is simply all this is. As the wonderful song goes, “What the world needs now is……..” ( fill in the blank.) And it is coming to our conscious awareness for us to live this love, to bring healing, to love every possible way and place we can. You don’t lose for loving!

To have any one focused on hate, demands that we, individually, turn completely around and focus on love. Right? Wherever there is indifference, or coolness, or avoidance, or even supposedly neutral-not-caring, or walking past without a word, or thinking no one needs you or your care, there we must love. Don’t miss an opportunity to love in the tiniest place, the tiniest spot, – perhaps  the most insignificant smile can make someone’s day.

Let’s just fill our thought with such alertness that we will never be caught without expressing and living the love that is Love!

 
* Incorrectly attributed to 13th-century saint Francis of Assisi.

** John 13: 33,34

*** Science and Health, p 43,44.