So, that's why...

"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults."
Poor Richard (aka, Benjamin Franklin)

Ever Heard of a "Love Mob"?

This was a response to the killing of children in Newtown, Connecticut.
This is the reaction we need for our culture filled with hate.

The Essence of Who We Are: LOVE

I read an interview by Marci Shimoff who co-authored some of the best selling Chicken Soup for the Soul books.  She said, "Love is actually the essence of who we are, and when we live in a state of unconditional love, what [she] call[ed]  'love for no reason,' we experience our essence that is love, which doesn't depend on another person, situation or romantic partner.  It is the core of every spiritual tradition."  

Peek-A-Boo

There is a Semitic saying:  What you love reveals who you are.

What is your love revealing about you?

Silence, Stillness, can bring good things...even love

Let Them be Them

Thomas Merton well said:
"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves,
and not to twist them to fit our own image.
Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
[from No Man is an Island]