Healing the world one person at a time
Just as world hunger is solved one child at a time, people are healed individually, one by one. So, just as we will end world hunger one person at a time, we will end love-starvation one person at a time. If we are to heal the humanity, we must love personally, not just universally. We must commit our love, and focus it.
People intuitively recognize the power of one-by-one. Parental commitment draws its power from that principle. Indeed, many parents recognize the world-healing power of personal love when they say that their contribution to saving the world is to raise one or two solid world citizens.
Unfortunately, the biological roulette wheel does not always deliver children who embrace their parent’s ideals. Consequently, to save the world, we must love beyond family ties, beyond belonging of any kind, beyond personal preference and convenience. We must invest deeply in what Jesus called “the fertile ground.” In this case, the fertile ground is people who are actually open to the fulfillment of relationship. Only those people will accept love deeply enough to truly be healed, and become healers in their own right. Do you see?
The chain of love
But there are so many people in the world! How can we possibly save the world unless we can love people in large batches?
Here’s how: Love someone, and heal that one. Then that one will love and heal someone else. The chain continues to infinity, because surely, anyone who is truly fulfilled in love, by love, can and will love/heal others.
As aspiring world healers, our job is to get that domino effect going. By loving personally, by committing genuine love to actual individuals, we begin to build a network of love that will extend far beyond ourselves.
This is an excerpt from an article called “Agape, Personal Love, & World Healing” from Soulprogress.com.
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