Love

What’s it got to do with anything these days?

It’s what the world needs now, but is suffering so from lack thereof.

Marriages are in shambles because spouses don’t even love and respect themselves enough to enter into a relationship let alone get married. Yet, mentally (and sometimes physically) broken, battered, and ill prepared, they enter into relationships, start families, etc. without true care or concern for those they claim to love. It’s only a matter of time before this house of deception and lies comes tumbling down!

Our world is cold. Shallow. Dog-eat-dog. I gotta get mine, the HELL with yours! Climb on YOUR shoulders and kick you in the face when they DO get theirs! Crabs in a barrel….literally pulling each other down to push ourselves UP! Ponzy-scheming (steal your hard-earned money because they are too lazy to earn it the old fashioned way!). Backstabbers. Smile in yo’ face not just trying to take yo’ place but twisting and jabbing the knife in your back WHILE talking to you!!

And we wonder why…babies are having babies (they are looking for love in all the wrong places); our children are fearless and emotionless (the fight in Seattle while the guard just stood there watching a poor, young girl literally get her FACE kicked in or the young man in Chicago beat to death with a 2x4); there are more of us in prison than in college. More of us living in poverty. More of us literally dying to be loved – AIDS.

Why, you ask, is all of this happening and at such an alarming rate?

Because, like Stevie said over 30 years ago and it couldn’t be more relevant now; love’s in NEED of love…TODAY!

We need more hugs. More quality time and not FACEBOOK time! (I know, be quiet!). We need more conversation and concern. Less iPod and iPhone. Less tuning OUT the world and more tuning IN. We must shift from a community-must-serve-us mentality to a COMUNNITY SERVICE mind set.

We need REAL LOVE not that superficial bull *ish you see in the movies. The kind that Barack and Michelle show us on the regular – that even though I may disagree with you, we may have our ups and downs and in betweens; at the end of the day, I genuinely LIKE you so, we’re gonna be alright no matter what may come our way!

For those who have it – amen! I admire you. I salute you. I want to be like you when I grow up!

For those who are still searching for that ONE LOVE; stay strong and be encouraged. You may feel lonely but you are never, ever, alone.

Be strong, vigorous and very courageous. Be not afraid, neither be

dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. Jos 1:9

Happy Valentine’s Day. EVERY day!