The problem with the religious right and the liberal left....

This is a challenge for most americans but for this post I will focus on one... myself.
The challenge is simple; it is also a word that is misused so often it has become bastard.
It is summed up in the word "Love."
As one who prescribes to the biblical idea of “Christianity,” I realize love is held in the highest of standards. I don’t mean a love romantic in nature but a love that is unconditional yet somehow not unattached.

Jesus statements in Matt 22:36 are one of the best examples of unconditional love.

"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" ³⁷Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' ³⁸This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' ⁴⁰All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

Now I’m not usually one to quote scriptures because not all people believe it, so I will make an attempt at narrative.
As a wise friend put it to me “unconditional love is the kind of love a mother has for a child… even in the face of adversity. Like when she knows her child is going to cause great harm to the (her) world and she births him anyway… that is love inexplicable.”

That is the kind of love that I do not possess… like many I find it easier to find fault than to extend grace. I do not have a genuine love for the scourge the derelicts the lost if you will. But in the same breath I do not have a love for the betters, the wealthy, or the upper class.

With the constant push in the media for more and an under surge of selfishness; the constant need to consume and think of “your” betterment. There is no time for others or the thought of need outside our own. And I have bought into this lie, this illusion hook line and sinker. But I have pushed it to its fringes so much so that I completely exclude the thought of others… right down to their humanity.

But the best thing about love is it’s a choice. No matter how often that choice needs to be renewed, in it’s most basic form it is a decision. And unconditional love is the choice to extend grace to everyone.