Love God and Love Others
By Eric Abney
I get caught up in the American dream. Having a nice car, owning a home, and making lots of money. To these ends I can find myself laboring, and as of lately I have asked myself, “for what?”
What need do I have of a nice car when it’s only purpose is to carry me from point a to point b? What need do I have to own a home knowing that I really don’t like to clean it or keep it up? Why make a lot of money? So I can buy more stuff to store in my garage so that I can show it off to my friends with the exclamation of, “look at this!”
I’m not saying that it is wrong to have any of the things I listed above. I am saying that I think my priorities are changing, and within that change I am finding that I believe my life may boil down to only two things: Loving God and Loving Others.
I had to attend the memorial service of a dear friend this past Saturday and I began to think about the end of our lives, the end of my life. What matters on that day? It’s not the fact that I raked enough money together to buy a home or collect a bunch of stuff.
In the movie Kingdom of Heaven there is a Latin phrase carved in a post at Balian’s blacksmith shop, “Nemo vir est qui mundum non reddat meliorem” “What man is a man who does not make the world better?” I think the real question lies in what did I do for my neighbor, what did I do for my community, was the world a better place because I lived in it? How will those questions be answered? How are they answered right now?
That’s good Eric. Glad your looking at life like this and encouraging others to do the same.
Thanks for your comment Ivy. I’m trying to learn as much as I can.
Smiling, life is much simpler then we make it out to be. Pleaseing God I find is so simple that most lose it’s truth in there own complications. Unfortunatly that alone can lead to deception and confusion. Distorting pure beauty.
Raw Love through relationship!
It’s my favorite thing!!!
Everything else can jump off a cliff…
You are right Anna. Life is much simpler than we make it out to be. Thanks for your comment.
Your the greatest cousin a guy could have. I love the way you think and am on the same path as well! Be well
Love ya cuzito