Be a good person

What does that mean- be a good person? To act from love. All thoughts, words, deeds come from love. If god is love and god made everything, then how can anything not be from love? One of the new-age-old-questions. Let's use earth as a metaphor.

We all love the Mother. Mother Earth. She grew us. We are her children. And even if you think "no, my parents grew me, I didn't pop out of the ground like a plant," we are all carbon based structures, so yes, we came from earth. And if you think humans are special and they were put on earth by god, then it goes back to argument 1 in the first paragraph.

Back to earth. Does the earth grow poisons? Yes, there are substances that can be poisonous to other earthly life forms. Did the earth grow the raw materials that, when properly combined, can destroy the earth as we know it? Most say yes. Does that make those materials evil? Is hydrogen the evil spawn of the earth? No. It's a raw material. Just like plants. Like animals. Like people.

So do we blame the earth for poison? For bombs? For factories? For germs? We most certainly can if we want. But take away the ingredients that are in those evils, and we destroy the earth as we know it. So our judgements can be as powerful as a hydrogen bomb in our attempt to " clean up" the evil products from earth.

Do we blame the parents for the children? Some do. Children love to blame the parents. Parents blame the teachers. Teachers blame the parents. Our kids can grow up to destroy the parents. We grow up and can destroy the earth. But can we destroy that which made the earth? The parents of the earth? The One (or ones) who started the whole dang mess in the first place? So we blame the parents of earth for the destruction of what it created? If I build a house of cards, or a universe, I can knock it down if I want, right? Or not? I don't know how the rules work in God-land, but if we were in fact created in the image of god, then there should be enough clues to all this if I just look at gods reflection in the mirror.

So what is love? That which created us? Is love our parents? Do we blame love for evil? ( have you listened to the radio lately? Any "love done me wrong" songs out there?) So is love to blame?

To be a good person. To act from love. No matter how "good" we are, there will always be something, someone out there who sees what we do as bad, or even evil. Because its all love. It's all god. So the only opinion that really matters is your own. Do you think you're a good person? Do you act in integrity with your beliefs? If your beliefs are not in alignment with mine, then who is right? We both are. That's why theres an Argument in the first place. And justification for destruction, which most consider evil, which came from integrity, which came from love, so is love evil, and if so, is there such a thing as a good person? If the answer is yes, show me one and I'll show you others who feel they have been harmed by that person. If the answer is no, then our job comes down to living as best as we can. And if at some point we can see ourselves in each other, that we are all, in fact, living and doing the best that we can in every moment and that would be our own personal best, not your best for me or my best for you, then we are acting from love. The love that grew us, without judgement, so we could do our best with what we were given, so we could figure out what love really is and who we really are and those are the keys to heaven. We are all good people. Just like the elements of the earth.

Wednesday's child is full of woe... From love.