Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.
Imagine how beautiful the world would be if we truly behaved as this scripture implores us to? Imagine people helping others rather than hurting others. Imagine people building each other's self esteem rather than insulting them. Imagine people being generous with their homes, services, finances, and hearts, rather than being stingy with them. Imagine people wanting to see everyone succeed rather than hoping others will fail.
I can only imagine...What a beautiful world that would be. I plead with you all to start a new trend with yourselves and your children. Let's teach our children the value of kindness, love, patience, and humility. Let's teach our children to have chastity, diligence, and temperance. Let's start a new movement in our space so that it can spread to spaces around us as rampant as a wild fire. Just like anything, it only takes one to start something grand. For everything there is a beginning. The Bible starts, "In the beginning...". We begin our lives as the tiniest of molecules and have a beating heart before any other parts begin to form. Everything bad, everything good, has a beginning. Let's have the beginning of treating people the way Jesus implores us to start right now.
We don't all have to agree. We don't all have to have the same views. We don't all have to make the same choices. We do all have to treat each other with respect, all people deserve respect. Respect is not approval. Respect is an understanding that everyone deserves His love and that His love starts with us.
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will live as one
Imagine by John Lennon
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