Some years ago I saw an embroidered sampler that read, "In the end, all that matters is what you have done for God."
I have just realized the deeper message there. What if all that matters is what we have done for God, God being the least among us? God being the beggar, the thief, the liar, the cheat...the one who brought his house down around his own head, and "it was his own fault," the young mother who got caught in an adulterous relationship "and she didn't even have the grace to blush."
Those folks. What have we done for them? What are we willing to do for them? Those with whom we can all identify in some manner or means...if we ever get bare-to-the-bone honest. Just because, "Well, I was never that bad," applies to me, if only in my own mind, that does not get me a bye. We are directed to love our enemies, yet my television set does not even know there is a Fox News channel. Ignoring our perceived "least among us" doesn't get us a bye, either.
We're directed to love...that's all. By any religion, religious director, spiritual guru that I've ever come across, that is the bottom-line message. And love is so misunderstood...or, actually, love is simply not understood. I think of love as to welcome, to not resist...anything. I do not do it well, but I do believe it, and I do aim for it. Just welcome any and all into our heart, and let God worry about the judgments later.
Face it...God does that better than we do.
Thank You.
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