Love is the solution

 It seems that any time of the day or night we can turn on the news and hear stories of discrimination against Asian Americans, African Americans, Muslims, Jews, Hispanics, LBGTQs. It’s all hate, and hate is the headline. Commentators highlight the hate.

But where are the stories of love and its redeeming powers. These are usually at the end of a newscast as human interest stories. As humans, we need one another, but loving one another is not a human instinct. If it were, the world would be a very different place and we wouldn’t have needed the great spiritual leaders.

Love is hard work, demanding work. Where are we taught how to love? Where are we taught its courage and its rewards? It’s not in songs or Hallmark stores or TV dramas or even always in families. 

Love is the solution, but it’s not our persistent and authentic cultural message. That has to change.