What is love? What does it look like? How do you find it? The video HUMAN documents a vast array of people’s experiences in searching for love, their successes, their failures, their pains and their triumphs.
A reader sent me this link, and I watched the first 40 minutes. It does include some profoundly moving stories.
If you have a few minutes, I encourage you to watch the young man who speaks from 3:30 – 7:00 minutes. It illustrates the power of true unselfish love to dissolve hatred in this world and what it requires of us to see it happen, no matter how we’ve been wronged.
HUMAN
WOW! Very powerful. Thank you for sharing.
I second what Maria.
Oh Wow, Evan! I just watched that part of the young man talking about what he learned about love…….and, well, it’s so REAL! I know now that this is what Jesus showed about Love when he forgave those who crucified him – even while he was on the cross! I can’t wait to go back later and watch the whole video! Thank YOu!
That is the most powerful kind of love…to love someone who took your child and grandchild from you. I haven’t gotten to that place yet…but I’m trying and I’m asking God to show me how to forgive and love those who I felt had wronged me. If this woman could do it, and Jesus could do it, then we all can do it. Thanks Evan for this most powerful message.
Thank you Evan.
With the first person to share his story, something deeply occurred to me. It’s yet another way we have to consider what we as Christians Scientist say and how others perceive it.
As that man was talking about what he grew up believing love to be, (repeated beatings), it occurred to me when we say God is Love or that God loves you it could mean something completely different than what it really is. It could actually scare, move people away from God rather them drawing them closer and giving them peace and comfort.
I have many years experience visiting jails and prisons, and working in Reading Rooms and as I have been talking to individuals I realized the difference in paradigms of the terminology between our different theologies . But I’m sorry to say, never did I stop and realize that even the word love could have, and probably was, most of the time perceived very very differently.
This is truly a huge eye-opener.
Thanks again, Evan!!