The worst word

I started this blog post a month ago and have taken my time to write this

There is a word that is worst word we use. This word is dangerous, painful, promotes death, kills your soul, creates monsters, promotes ignorance, creates divide and tears apart nations....it does much more then I could type. What word is it? The word is HATE.

hate

/hverb (used with object), hated, hating.

1. to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest:

to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.

2. to be unwilling; dislike:

I hate to do it.

verb (used without object), hated, hating.

3.to feel intense dislike, or extreme aversion or hostility.

noun

4. intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.

5. the object of extreme aversion or hostility.

adjective

6. noting or relating to acts that are motivated by hatred, prejudice, or intolerance:

a hate crime; hate mail.

 

Hate is a poisonous word...like a worm in an apple or a slug in your garden. It keeps eating away until there is nothing left.
 

My heart has been inflamed with the amount of hate there is especially as of late.There was a really dark time in my life the spring/summer of 2011, during that time I questioned everything I belived in. I decided that I needed to figure out exactly who this Jesus was who I believed in because the alternative was getting angry with Him and walking away from everything I believed. So I got my Bible read through the book of John first and I was amazed. The one thing that stood out above the rest was the amount of love Jesus poured out on EVERYONE. No one is excluded from the everyone.  I am a Christian woman who chooses to follows Jesus. I choose to follow Jesus' example. Joe and I have made it our mission to love ALL people. That doesn't mean we have to agree with everything they choose believe in, just like they don't have to agree with all that we believe in, we like to build friendships on love. Because of that we have met some of the most awesome people. The saying that our kiddos have heard from a very young age is "when you cut someone's skin you realize we all bleed the same color. The inside of a person it the most important part"

I know that hate in this world is going to get worse and worse. It will continue to divide people and destroy beautiful lives. My hope is that one day I will see love win out over hate. It is funny to me that the simplest act of choosing to love or understand someone is so hard to perform when one has so much hate built up inside. I love these two sayings from Dr. King:

As I close this post I want you to think on this.....If today was your very last day here on this earth would you want to die with a heart full of hate or a heart that chooses to love? I choose to live each day like it is my last....to me that is how LOVE WINS!!