Day 2

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:30-31
Yesterday at the ballpark went pretty well. I was actually surprised at my own ability to be less judgmental simply by thinking about my thoughts and actions more closely. For example, it started raining pretty heavily during the 6th inning, and Wes and I went to a covered area to watch the game. While we were there, a man decided that the space I was occupying was actually his little square of sightline. Immediately feeling an urge to elbow him in the guts, I decided instead to take a moment to pray for peace and the ability to forgive.

Today, I decided to adopt one of my favorite Bible verses, and one of my favorite things Jesus ever says. For those of you who don't know, this is actually a quotatation from Deuteronomy 6:5, but it is one of the simplist yet most complex statements in the entire Bible. It's something I'm going to have to be focusing on for...well, forever. But there's a difference between tolerating people when they do annoying things and loving them as Jesus has called us to. So there's definitely no time for me to write anymore. I have to start loving!