What Makes the Difference?

Day and night, weeks pass, seasons change and life goes on, repetitiously. We fear the end, we seek the end. But even in death there is no end. One lives on in the next life; however, the pains of the physical are cast off even if but briefly.

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At times we may want to quicken this lifespan and run to the Eternal, but the present is with us now. Nothing really changes. We are the blind and deaf mutes who are ignorant. God loves us anyway. We make poor choices. God loves us. We harm others and our world intentionally and unintentionally. God loves us. We fight and hate and curse and are ever greedy. God loves us. We judge and condemn and think of ourselves as righteous, and even in our errors and ignorance. God loves us. We try and we don’t try. We work and we are lazy. We spend unwisely, and we cherish certain relationships above others. God loves us. We worship sexuality and money and material things. God loves us. We are mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers, children and adults and elderly. We are all these things and God loves us.

Why can some people sacrifice themselves in the name of love while others destroy in the spirit of greed? Why does one follow the path of love to the point of giving up his life for another or a cause while another person takes and takes? What has made the difference? If we could understand this, we could save the world.