I don't know about you, but I hurt.  I hurt seeing an America so divided.  I hurt seeing an America stirred to react out of fear.  So stirred to react in bigoted ways.  So stirred to react in unloving ways, to act out of hate and spite.  I hurt seeing Americans throw their support behind a leader who shows no remorse for the ways his words and actions divide, kill, and harm Americans and America.  As the rhetoric, fear mongering, and polarity heats up seeking to sew only dissension and division during this election cycle, may we remember we are not called to live in fear, nor anger, nor to be divided from our neighbor and our brother and sisters.  We are called to walk in love. In his book, The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis describes the four loves found in scripture. — storge, philia, eros, and agape.   First, there's storge — the affectionate bond that grows between parents and children, brothers and sisters, and family members.   Second, philia the powerful emotional bond experienced between close friends; the most general love found in Scriptures that includes the love for fellow humans, care, respect, and compassion for those in need.   Thirdly, there's eros the sensual romantic love between two people celebrated and enjoyed as a blessing from God.   All three of these loves carry a spark of the Divine, of Source and when freely shared and experienced between and among all of God's children, each and every one of us these loves reflect and shine a glimpse of the Divine Light, of Source upon the cosmos.  That healing love reflected on the cosmos unites, heals, and restores our souls but no love does all of this greater than the last and greatest of these loves — agape. Agape is the immeasurable, incomparable love for all of creation.  It the perfect love, unconditional love, sacrificial love, and pure love from Source.   Love is the most powerful, transformative, upbuilding, healing emotion that humanity can experience, express, and share with others.  Love is the closest emotion, force, action, behavior, influence that animates us which makes us as close to God as possible.  Love is the most unifying force that brings us in unity with Source, with God, with our creator. I thought imaginally praying with the four loves of scripture and basing our meditation on the universal power of LOVE, we can heal our souls and the souls of our brothers and sisters during this peri-coved 19 highly polarized 2020 Presidential election cycle we are about to wrap up in the next few months.  I hope you will join me.   

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