Love us all

I'm surprising myself by writing this. I was engaged in a great internal debate with myself for quite some time. At odds were two convinctions I feel fairly strongly about. At the core of this battle: love. Love for high and love for human.

I must say I gave myself a great challenge. The wrestling match often changed leads and points were scored almost at will on both sides of the board.

I have friends whom I love on both ends of a widely divided spectrum. Friends whose opinions I respect, and whose ideas provoke thought from me. I struggled with the notion of potentially disagreeing with a force not to be disagreed with. Finally I concluded that I wasn't disagreeing with that power at all. If anything I was embracing it.

As a unified body, we have set out to live representative of love. Doing so we live among ideas and beliefs, customs and taboos, which we may or may not understand, but with which we have great disagreement. It's not a matter of being closed minded, it's a matter of our mind being made up. However our deicsions to act must be representative of love. Regardless of our convictions love must be the root of all our decisions.

It is not against the law to engage in beliefs which conflict with our own. Bowing on a rug, wailing at a wall, serenely seated with legs cross and a gentle hum escaping from our lips; we do not try to legislate. Regardless that each ritual is against the idea and hope we have placed our lives in. No attempt to regulate or force disengagement comes across the docket. If in the eyes of One each back turned is as painful as the next, if no waivering from the path yields greater anguish than any other, why then is it condonable to elevate one path to love as being more inappropriate than the other?

We do not need to condone it. We do not need to agree with it. We do not need to enjoy it. We do not need to accomodate it.

We do need to love. We do need to accept. We do need to cherish and take care of. We do need to walk side by side.

We are sailing in the same ship admist the same rough seas. Division does nothing but allow evil to conquer. Our walk does not include ostracising those whose path follows a different moon.

If we don't do it with a different hope, why would we do it with a different love?