I am a hippie for God

13Feb09

  It’s 2 am and I am in the middle of reading for Milton, however more pressing things are on my mind.  Lately my friends have been talking about the specific goal God has for us in mind, a task that he created each of us uniquely so that we could execute it according to his plan.   I find it humorous that as much as I love language, language in and of itself can easily become a barrier because there is a bias both on the speaker and reciever.  However as one of my dear friends pointed out, in that ambiguity God can work.  Again I see more humor.  I love poetry and literature and I love my faith, and somehow every paper when I am stuck or miserably failing the word count I begin to talk about my Catholic faith.  I begin to talk about love.   Love.  Since Valentine’s Day is tommarrow love is the air so to say.  But love is so much more than candy hearts and red roses.  Love is the greatest comandment God gave us.  Love him and love our neighbor as ourself.  Again in Corinthians Paul tells us if we do not have love, then everything we strive for is meaningless, our words, our actions, without love we are missing the point.

One of my friends in the past called me a hippie in reference to my desire to love people as Christ calls me to love them.  And I retorted that hippies did not wear stilettos and therefore I am not a hippie.  But more and more I find my self drawn towards being a hippie, because ultimately all we are called to do in this life is fueled by our love for our God and his people.  And I say it proudly I am a hippie for God.  All I want you to know it that you must love one another, and in loving you will find a beautiful freedom, and I hope you expierience great happiness.  It will not be romantic but the joy is indescribable.

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