www.nofoiegras.org
I don't know why I put this up. Maybe to promote awareness since ducks are one of my favorites in the animal kingdom. I started to cry so quit reading. But just in case you want to know what foie gras is, here you go.
The tendency, or more like human condition, of getting offended or hurt and thus feeling the inclination to not love that person who's hurt or offended us. I've blogged about this before (maybe), and I'll blog about it again.
We, as natural men and women, take the offensive things people do or say to us and turn them into barriers to loving them. Why do we do that? OR do we do that? Why do we activate or operate that link: ‘You offend me, therefore I don’t like you’? Maybe the commandment to love one another was phrased so simply and so directly so as to be able to just simply recall it easily. To make it a bottom liner. Something you gotta come back to when you’re inclined to lick your wounds after some cold hearted snake looks into your eyes after he’s been telling lies. (Not speaking from personal experience, was just inspired by Paula’s experience with this condition). When all shoot hits all fans and the closest let you down, and perhaps won’t stop letting you down that’s when we find it hard, ere impossible, to love. Again, why? Why that direct effect, that link between those two? It seems perfectly self-explanatory and obvious, but when you really think about it, it’s not because maybe there’s a different kind of relationship between offense and love than the obvious one I’m used to. It’s not a cause and effect relationship. There’s a converse relationship between offense and love, and either way you look at it, the conclusion is the same:
We’re all meant to disappoint each other but that doesn’t affect whether or not we love each other. We’re all meant to love each other but that doesn’t affect whether or not we disappoint each other. The conclusion is the same, the point is the same, the “way” is the same. Love stands and is our highest priority and challenge. And it’s not ethical. It’s not “should I love”. It’s not conditional. “I don’t love you anymore”. It’s not rational. “Well, if we didn't have this crap going on then I’d be more loving…” I don’t think it’s anything but what it is. Love is love.
I am willing to bet that just as many people who are ingrained with the ignorance in recognizing what true charity is, the same are ingrained with the power to get it, feel it and live it out. So the object of this life is reconciling ourselves to it, overcome ignorance of how love works, learn what love is. Mess up, then re-learn again. In other words, put off that natural man? Can I get some thoughts on this? Does any of this make sense?
3 comments:
Perfect sense. What gets me is this whole pride thing. Pitting yourself against another because of offense, or some small, maybe even large thing.
Bottom line, by not loving that person, you in no way hurt said person in the long run. You only wear down and destroy yourself.
Beautiful Laura.
That's it, I think. Way to break it down, Sarita. I like you. Please move to Santa Cruz. : )
Beautiful thoughts, sweetie. You've always had such a profound sense of sympatico, even when you were little.
Remember that primary song..."Where Love is, there God is also"...think of the opposite of that. Where love is not, neither is God. Without God, we are left vulnerable to the Father of all Fear. And fear destroys us.
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