LOVE-LENT 2017 - THE WORD IN LENT #32

Love is to gather, not scatter.

Saturday, Fifth week in Lent - 8th April, 2017
Ezek 37: 21-28; Jn 11: 45-56

Love is to gather, it is not to scatter. In the name of love for a person, if someone shatters every one else and scatters everything that is there, is it truly love? In the name of love one pressurises, forces or makes someone endure an undue pain, is it true love? In the name of loving someone or something, if a person advocates division and cruelty to others. is it truly love? Love does not polarise. Love does not set one against the other. Love does not spread calumny or hatred against others. Love is not an exclusive relationship that promotes ghetto mentality. Love is a broad sense of openness to the entire world. In loving one, I become a loving person myself...and thus I become one who gathers, not one who scatters. If I truly love, I will not be able to think thoughts of hatred, thoughts of division, thoughts of possession, thoughts of manipulation, thoughts of exploitation, thoughts of deception. Love, if true, makes me gather, not scatter!