Love Is Enough

Can We Bridge the Racial Divide?

I wasn't present the night Trayvon Martin was killed so I can't say definitively what happened. However, I do know it is a tragedy either way you slice it. Someone's child is dead, and as a mother, I find that painfully intolerable.

I know many people are angry Zimmerman appears to have gotten away with murder (angry enough to protest), and I understand their frustration with our criminal justice system which is sometimes both color blind and color dumb, but I don't think anyone ever gets away with anything.  Not if you believe in God, or Karma, or universal justice.

does love mean never having to say you're sorry?

The infamous line from Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal in the 1970 weepy, Love Story, states -- "Love means never having to say you're sorry."

Once again we have sweeping advice about love and romance from Hollywood...advice that is just really terrible and only sustainable if your ill-fated "love story" ends before it really begins. Ali MacGraw's Jenny is dead at 25! Ryan's Oliver grieves for about twenty minutes or until Candice Bergen appears during Oliver's Story.

John Lennon, on the other hand, is quoted as saying, "Love means having to say you're sorry every five minutes."

I happen to agree with John on this one, but it's taken me a very long time to get here. 

love immersion

How do we immerse ourselves in a loving attitude?

I try to do it by getting up each and every day and making a concentrated effort to be more loving to myself and others. The hope is I will start my day off each day on a positive note. If I can do that, hopefully I will be able to handle whatever the day throws at me, and I will be able to do so in a calm and loving manner.

However, like I've said repeatedly, I'm still a Student of Love who needs constant and consistent practice, so it's not easy and I'm no Mother Teresa. I am, hopefully, someone who is growing beyond the limitations of ego enough that I have more loving moments each day than I used to have.