In the Christian scriptures there is the story of when Jesus is asked which is the most important commandment. In the Jewish tradition there are ten and Jesus responds by saying that the first commandment, also known as the Shema is “Love the Lord Your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind.” and then the second most important commandment is “Love you neighbor as yourself.” Growing up knowing of those two commandments, I often thought, about how we do the second one and that is exactly the problem. We do love one another as we love ourselves. We seem to lack a love of self. It is not a self-esteem issue. I think it is an issue of not putting the first commandment first. If we truly loved God with all of our being then we would see ourselves and everyone else through God’s eyes and love of neighbor would simply flow out of us. So, if I am feeling anything less than love for my neighbor then I need to go back and look at how I am practicing the first commandment, not look at how I can get better at the second one. First things first. My prayer for us today is that we look at how willing we are to love God with our whole being above all. Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen
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