Old Whispers

I was born a few years after the "Free-Love" movement, so I missed the hippy's efforts to draw the world towards perfection. An earlier birth might have prevented a couple of naive comments I am about to make, but I doubt it.

Who really listens to you?

Who hears your words and understands?

Who blesses you?

Who tells you you are of "infinite value" and "wonderfully created?"

Who affirms you?

Who do you feel safe around?

Who choses you?

Who includes you?

Who touches you in a selfless way?

A masseuse will touch you, but asks for payment at the end. A counselor/therapist will listen to you and understand you, but also asks for payment. Church would seem like a place for these to happen, yet more often then not, we hear a few words from a celebrity preacher, and slide out the door.

Our Culture is LOVE-DEFICIENT.

The demand, the need, the longing of culture is to be Loved.

I know it because my soul craves it.

Every addictive, criminal, and behavioral problem stems from love starvation.

I long and desire to be filled by "A Source",

Sometimes I make friends so that I will feel affirmed by them.

I give hugs, just so I can feel the warmth.

I am often selfish.

Yet I want to be filled, filled so full that I overflow with selfless desire to give. I find it quite difficult to love anyone more than I love myself, to put their interests higher than mine...yet this is what I pray for. It is what I need, and the world needs!

Receive. The first part, the hardest part. It is funny how much I try to serve God, when really he is like the sun. I cannot do anything to make him burn hotter or brighter. I could run to the nearest service station, fill a five gallon pail of gasoline, go into an open field, and toss it into the sky...hoping to encourage the sun to burn another moment or two. Inane!

That word is mighty close to the word insane.

It is insane. I can't increase my exposure to the nourishing vitamin D by working harder.

I can only position myself to receive. Rest. Haha...I can't earn the suns light! I can't do anything to deserve it more or less. So I sit in it's heat. I must find places to sit in His heat. I can't give out of an empty cup.

So even on this cold rainy day. I am going to sun-bathe. I am going to lay on the carpet with my arms open...and talk quietly to The Source. After receiving, from the Provider, my belief is that I will be more equipped to offer love others by

affirming them.

listening to them.

touching them.

showing them safety.

chosing them.

including them.

Loving them...

So partake in the "too-good-to-be-true" gospel. Do nothing!

The overflow of it will change the needy world!