The Purpose

Stunning words! MLK, Ghandi, and Audrey Hepburn come to mind. If only the people who SHOULD read this would. 💗🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤

Tim!!! I am blown away by this. This writing goes beyond philosophy; it expresses exactly what every person, government, corporation, and church should be focused on—instead of profit and upward mobility. I look at what is happening right now in the United States with the ICE situation, and it is disheartening. It seems to be driven by hate. People are being beaten up and killed in the streets. High-ranking politicians are lying, trying to make us think that video evidence shows something other than what it clearly displays. Shouldn’t we be working with our neighboring governments to ensure that all human beings are comfortable and safe—even if that means setting up sanctuary areas? The Christian Bible explicitly states: • Leviticus 19:34: “The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt." • Deuteronomy 10:18-19: Do not wrong or oppress foreigners; God loves and provides for them. • Leviticus 19:9-10: Leave portions of harvests for the poor and foreigners. • Mark 12:31: Jesus extends the command to love your neighbor as yourself to include strangers, making no distinction between them. • Galatians 3:28: In Christ, cultural distinctions dissolve, emphasizing universal brotherhood. I quote the Bible because the people behind this ICE program call themselves Christians and claim to be working in the name of God. Organizations like the Heritage Foundation are run by billionaires, yet they call themselves Christian organizations. These are the same people backing things like tax cuts for billionaires while cutting Medicaid and Medicare. Both programs help the middle class, the lower class, and sick, elderly people like my mom. I have already seen these Medicare cuts in action; several services my mom used to receive are no longer available, yet billionaires are getting their big tax cuts. Where is the love in that? But here’s the caveat: if love is our number one goal, then I must also offer love to those politicians trying to deceive us. I must offer love to those billionaires who couldn't care less about us because they only want to become the first trillionaire. I must even send love to those ICE agents in the streets beating people because they "do not belong here." Universal Love is a tough thing to achieve—I think it is almost impossible. But certainly, as a society, a government, a business, and as individuals, we can do much better than we are. Right now, it looks like hate, greed, and the desire for power are the drivers of everything. Sorry for the long rant—but this is how I perceive everything going on right now.

I heard every word you wrote. All we need to do is love

Beautiful, insightful & uplifting! 💕

I feel reborn. And that's what good poetry can do.

Tim, that is exactly what it it - not what if. All the prophets across religions said to love. A long time ago, a man told a story of people at his dying mother's bedside. They were telling her they loved her. He said to her, "I love you." Her final words, he relayed to us while crying, were "That's all there is." Great job, love this, wish it could be embedded for all to feel or see each day.

Amen to this. Loved this so much!

Very well said, my friend. Sadly, many have missed or never picked up on the lessons love has to offer. They flunked that course with a big, fat 'F' ! Hope this gets a TS so more eyes can read it.