Trick or Treat part 5
How you treat people should not be a trick. That's what I've been waiting to say for this Rant series. That's why I titled it that way. How you treat people... should be a treat. Listen, I'm gonna get real with you. You can help people and make their lives better whether you like them or not. And that's not being fake. That's being mature. That's being a child of God. That's being love incarnate. And that's who we are. Not just what we do... but who we are. The fire in you is always hotter than the fire you're in. You don't have to let things get into you when you know what's already in there. When you're full to overflowing with the love of God. When that is the case--and that IS the case--you won't have room for anything else. In light there is no darkness at all. Treating people with dignity and respect should be universal. There shouldn't be room for anything else. That is the bottom line basis that we should start with. Treating people like people. We are all in this together. And things work out better when we work together. We need each other. Those bonds, and connections, and relationships are what literally makes this world go 'round. You can't make or strenthen those bonds be tricking people. By treating people like they're less than. You can't make yourself look bigger by making someone else look smaller. It doesn't work that way. Because how you treat people says nothing about them and everything about you. Making someone else look smaller just makes you look like a bully. Ask my son, there's nothing, in my opinion, worse than a bully. People don't go around destroying people. That's not how this works. Those kinds of "people" are the most miserable, angry, sad, lonely "people" out there. Which, of course, means they need love. Because they aren't getting any. Because they are hard to love. Which means we need to love those people too. Or, in truth, it means we need to love those people especially. Love conquers all, right? Love wins. We destroy our enemies by making them our friends. And we make people our friends by loving the hell out of them. Receiving the love of God and releasing it with every breath we take and every move we make. Letting God love the hell out of us and then loving Him back by loving the people He puts in our path. Only you can be you. Only you can reach the people you can reach in the way that you can reach them. That's important. Because if you don't reach them... who will? Maybe nobody. So do your part. Stay in your lane. You don't have to try to do everything. Just do what you can do. Love the people you have the opportunity to love. Jesus said people would know His disciples by the love they shared. And let me say this to try to put a bow on this Rant series: Love is limitless. We are connected to the unlimited source of love. The more we give it away... the more of it we have. We can't run out of it. We experience it by giving it away. By sharing it. If you want to feel love... love somebody. Give what you've got. Lay your life down for your friends. Understand that everybody is your friend... even if they don't know it yet. Don't trick people. Treat them right!