ON LEARNING TO LOVE, FEAR NOT HATE

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate. -- Nikka, 6 [From Kids Talk About Love] 

You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy,' But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven....  -- Matthew 5:43

Don't tell me little six-year-old Nikka didn't have a direct line to God. She set out in one sentence what it took the Sermon on the Mount practically an entire book in the Bible to put forth. Not to mention how long it takes most of us to believe it works...or works to our advantage, not to put too fine a point on it. 

God and things of God do seem to play out in reverse in our walking-around world. Mirror image it is called.

Being the child of my Father who is in heaven...knowing it and showing it without pride or dissembly...proves to be a hard road to walk. At first blush, realizing we are a child of God can bring tears of joy...it is in the proving that truth that we stagger, stumble and fall. If we are doing it right. 

I'm guessing nobody ever got through God's front door without sporting a lot of bruises, scabs and scars. The fact is, as long as we stay stuck in our reasoning mind, we stay stuck in the hurt-wallow of rues, regrets and remorses. 

The wonder is that going to God for God and that is all rockets us to the higher plane. The backstory of the wonder...that rocket takes its own sweet time to ignite and lift off. Ours is to stay with it. 

There is no wrong way to seek God...some ways just take longer than others. Or maybe it's just that they seem to take longer. "Getting" God is not on our timetable nor ours to worry about. We are born with God within us/without us. Accepting that is the necessary time taker.  

The hard-to-believe gift: We have God, we cannot not have God, we had God before we were born, we will have God after we are dead and buried. The stranglehold is our trying to prove that which is unprovable to the reasoning mind. 

Whether we believe it or not, makes no nevermind to God. If not to him, why to us?

Thank you.