We all agree that love is the energy that moves the world.
We all agree that peace is the biggest achievement, what everyone wants in their own self, lives, relationships and countries.
If this two words, peace and love, are probably the most important words in our lives… Why the world is so messy and why is so difficult for everyone to find love and peace nowadays?
In my view, love and peace comes from the inner self of each individual. Of each of us. We are responsible of our own peace, and responsible to love and be loved by others.
The biggest of the problems we can find today is the inability of people to love and to be at peace.
The world seems to be a place where you consume constantly digital entretainment, where you are constantly occupied by a screen wether at work or with your own phone. Seems to be a hectic place where, everything you do since you wake up until you go to bed is being “connected” but with other stuff that happens in the world through Instagram, X, or other social media, or the whole internet.
In my view, the world is loosing peace and it’s loosing people with the real and true ability to love.
We are a selfish society, individualistic, and materialistic. Not long ago, families were the school of love. Nowadays it’s the opposite. More than 50% of marriages end up on a divorce causing major trauma to both the couple and the children.
No one wants to go through such experiences in life, and we all want just 2 things: peace and love in our lives.
The biggest problem here is were we try to define what love and peace is. It’s hard. Because those are intangible words, you cannot own 100gr of love. Or 1Kg of peace. It’s something hard to explain because it is intagible.
When you are at the top of a mountain, after a long hike with your friends, you feel peace, and you feel love. At least you should if the weather has been good enough to enjoy it! Even if it rains, you can feel it anyway as it’s something you experience on your inner self.
You feel love when someone is taking care of you, a nurse for example in a hospital when you are sick. You can experience love even when you are suffering.
You feel at peace when you have completed your work, or while you are doing your work, in a ethical way.
You feel love when you are with your family, with your friends, or with your loved ones.
You feel at peace when you are inside a Cathedral, in silence, observing and contemplating the majesty of that place.
In my view, we are all here in this world for one big purpose. This is to love, and to be loved.
However this can be a bit confusing when we try to explain what love is. For some people love is just the sum of all those situations in life that I just mentioned. The sum of all this good feelings that you get in some specific moments of your life.
And it’s true, that is love. However, I’d define it as love in lowercase. We can call it semi-concious love, or love in almost it’s fullness.
The problem with that love with lowercase is that it is unstable, we can only feel it in certain moments of our life, while the others we’re just trying to survive, or be entetained or simply do whatever we can to reduce our phisical or mental suffering.
Love, with capital letter, to me is a Person, which happens to be also God himself. This is Jesus Christ.
Love, with capital letter, is God. God is Love. And I understand God as 3 different “things”, but the same essence. It’s like water, that can be expressed in 3 different states (solid, gas, liquid) and it’s always water.
The same happens with the Holy trinity. In my understanding, God is Father (the God of all cultures), and Son (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit.
When you understand that reality in your life, when you go the ultimate level of the understanding of Love and Peace, you must reach to this conclusion. Or a similar one, if you are not Christian.
This changes the whole equation on the experience we can get in life about true Love and true Peace.
Love and Peace it’s something that can’t be possessed or buyed. It’s something given by us, for free… Everyday. Always. And it’s in our own freedom the ability to see it, inside of us, to see that love and that peace that comes from within ourselves.
If you see and you acknowledge that you are Loved, the consequence of that is Peace. Because we don’t need anything else to have Peace. We just need to open our interior eyes and see that gift that’s given to us every day. The gift of Life. The gift of experience Love. And the gift of making Peace in this world.
I encourage you to understand in your life if you are loving or Loving. Do you take action in your life because you seek love or because you are loved you then take action in your life as a consequence of that inner energy that you get every day?
Time for reflection. Time to rethink the way we love. Time to reconsider if it’s worth imposing our own ways or accepting His ways. Time to reconsider if we truly love or we think we truly love.
Thanks for reading.
AL