Coexisting
and Love
Since I
was young, I’ve always imagined the world as a simple place. For me, it was
composed of normal people and simple rules. Learn to coexist.
No.
Life is about more than just coexisting.
What is
the greatest commandment? Love the Lord God with all your life, all your soul
and all your strength. The second is this. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Where in that line would you find God telling you to simply coexist?
Why am
I talking about this right now? Recently, I observed my surroundings. My
college, my church, even my house, I studied the people carefully. Are we
living with love for others or are we merely coexisting? We acknowledge that
they’re there, but we don’t take the time to appreciate them. We see them, but
we don’t really see them.
Take my
college for example. It’s small, less than a hundred students. We are close,
the college has a very ‘family-like’ setting. But yet, there are still a lot of
us who have never had a conversation with the other students from different
batches. We know about each other, but we don’t know each other. Distinction.
Same goes for the church. Our church is not even a mega-church, yet on Sundays,
I realized that I don’t even talk to the other members, especially the new
ones. And it’s worse than my experience in school, I don’t even know some
people exist!
It’s
just starting to get to me that we are all in God’s family. My churchmates,
schoolmates and batchmates, we are all supposed to be one. How can a body
function when there is no communication?
This
week, I strive to change. I will appreciate others, and not just in my mind
either. I will take the time to get to know them, have a conversation, and find
a way to bless them.
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