Unwanted Violence

We open our newspapers each morning to unwanted violence new every day, Sundays included. There is no peace. Somebody is shooting a gun at someone else every night in my local community every night of the week, making it difficult to show up in our world risking love, showing of truest, God-given selves to our neighbors and the world. This means it is very difficult to follow what John says: ” While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. (12:36)”
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus implored his followers to use nonviolence in their lives. Above all, Jesus preached nonviolence. Jesus was a man of nonviolence; He even cautions his male counterparts to search their own souls for their own sins before casting stones against a woman accused of sin. And in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus says, “but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. {Matt. 5:39)”
So, from one humble brother to all my brothers and sisters, be aware of the violence, but choose Love, God’s Love.

P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others.
Love is God’s symphony, the perfect beauty!
Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
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