The story...
They gave me the choice of surgery on both bunions at once or one at a time. Doing both would've required navigating a wheel chair. Friends encouraged me to do both so that I might more fully experience the dilemmas of handicapped people within the workplace - they wanted me to voice my concerns and bring attention to the problems and possible solutions. "You could help other people and open our workplace up to those with handicaps."
I did one at a time and hobbled around on crutches twice. I didn't experience the wheel chair barriers yet I did need help from others. I asked for help. The help felt like love - I was so... thankful and seemed to have become a more "whole" person.
Might I've best learned to love better by allowing others to love me as a younger man? What necessary ingredients were missing? I would've had to: believe that true love existed, witness love being given and received, believe in the power, trust the giver, allow imperfect people to offer love in their own way, know that I'm lovable, and eventually offer love to others from The Source.
The only church in town will be characterized as loving God, themselves and others too - He, me and we. It won't be a type of imagined love that's worked up through self effort - it'll be a gift from God.
Just for today...
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art." Francis de Sales
"He has told you, mortal one, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?" Malachi 6:8 (NASB)
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