IN LOVE…
How crucial LOVE is in
everyone’s life on earth…
“If I speak in the tongues of
mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging
cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers,
and understand all my mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so
as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I
hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing,” 1 Corinthians, chapter 13, verses 1-3.
All of us should know that
love is not envious of other people’s possessions, status or wealth. Love is not boastful telling everyone how
great of a person you are as a doctor, lawyer, entertainer, athlete, religious
and/or political leader. No one person
is better than the other, especially if they are boastful and void of love for
one another. Love is not arrogant like
the President of the
As people who want to truly
be in love, I and all people must reverence, protect, and promote all life, and
that we will be especially sensitive to the life of the unemployed or
underemployed living on non-livable wages due to the greed of corporations, the
unborn, the abused, neglected, disabled, sick, elderly, victims of all immoral
WARS, those in prison, those on death row, the environment, and most of all the
great multitude of POOR found
throughout the world and in your own neighborhood. Love cares for the welfare of others, rather
than seeking to advance itself at others’ expense. This was the problem among the Corinthians
that Paul addressed in the first paragraph, when he wrote about their
ambitiousness and factions, like we see among people today right here in
Being in love is
indescribable, unearned and unconditional.
We should all be accepted for just as we are, incomplete, broken, and
restless. We all are human with
strengths and weaknesses. It is love
that should power and motivate us. Being
in love is the bond that should unite us all throughout the world and with our
Higher Power. The two are inseparable,
you cannot be in love with God and not show your concern for others, just
praying and running to church or synagogue is not being in love if you do not
be in love with the entire universe. One
cannot “just be a good person” without being on fire with or in love with some
spiritual higher ground, than mere humans cannot understand nor accept
fully. There should not be any situation
that makes being in love for love to stop.
We must forgive, no matter how difficult it may be in life. We need to open our hearts, mind and soul to
love much more powerfully in the face of evil actions by others, violence in
our homes, streets, country or world, and the multitude of structural and
societal social injustices. For without
being alive in love for God and everyone else, we have failed as humans, and
without being on fire with passion for love, our speech becomes just noise, and
our actions, even if good become hollow and useless. A burning passion to be balanced in being in
love we would see on earth a renewed vision, a new face, the face of being
lovers, rather than separated into factions and fighting. There exists NO LOVE in violence, revenge and war! Any FORCE
OR LAW used against the love of God and others is always a violation of our
spiritual dimension and is immoral. The
use of taxpayer’s money to murder a murderer still remains loveless, immoral
and pure hatred. The use of taxpayers
money to give multimillionaires and billionaires tax subsidies remains,
regardless of any rationale, is not being in love – it is pure, ugly, monstrous
greed and continues to be avariciousness, covetousness, selfishness and
rapaciousness- as is Wal-Mart, Exxon and the great multitude who only care
about their true idol, which of course is profit, money and stock shares. Unrestricted, unregulated, out-of-control and
unfair trade in Capitalism is a SIN
against our Higher Power and all living forms on earth. Most of all the use of taxpayer’s money to
fight and kill in wars is the ultimate falling away from God and others – it
should be a crime, and everyone from the White House, Congress and the Supreme
Court should be held accountable for their crimes and resign immediately from
their positions of unrestricted and abusiveness of power.
Deeds of true love are
content to have God as their only audience!
Those of us who only do “good deeds” for the sake of appearing holy to
their neighbors or minister are complete phonies. In the Gospel of Matthew he asks; “Do we
parade our good deeds openly or keep them secret? Those who give great amounts of their wealth
to have their names written on paper, placards, stone, buildings, wings of
hospitals, park benches, and so on and so on have received their reward here on
earth, and their purity of heart is in question. To truly be in love, give generously, but
anonymously! Give freely of your time,
talent and treasures for the benefit of all mankind. If you only give to receive a tax break on
your taxes, you have not yet learned how to be truly and honestly in love with
our Creator and with one another. Give
of yourself freely and honestly. If at
the end of the week you only have $20.00 in your pocket, consider yourself rich
and give it away to the poor. Is it
possible to cut back on your entertainment wants and freely give to a social
injustice issue? Rather than going to
the bar one night, donate what you would have spent on drinks and food to your
church, synagogue, mosque or other spiritual center. Don’t say you’re poor if you could live
without cable or the internet or television, CD’s of music and movies, the bar
scene,
All spirituality and
religion, if honest with themselves should be promoting and celebrating our
Oneness and not our separateness. Being
in love’s common goal is to bring us together as a human family. It is our thoughts, actions, and how we
interact and live, experience and share our love in our brief existence here on
earth that is important, not the labels or words we use to separate or
compartmentalize our differences. If you
don’t like the word God, then use Allah, Yahweh, Supreme Being, Creator,
Spiritual Significant, Higher Power or whatever – don’t allow words to separate
us from our significant spiritual dimension or from any life form in the
universe. The web of life is in tune
with being in love with all. When we finally
come to accept our role to be in love with life, that our very essence of being
is love, that our true identity is a spiritual one, it then becomes easier to
understand that all our relationships and interactions offer us huge
opportunities to experience that light of love which exists in one another and
to know that what we see is but a reflection of ourselves. We are all family through our creation by our
common Higher Power of love, no one is inferior towards any one else. WE ARE ONE!!!
Life began with single cells of male and female, which came together in
mutual love from on High. Biologically
and spiritually we are connected as one, even with our beautiful gifts of
diversity, especially of cultures, color, and language. These should NOT be used to form walls around
ourselves, but to build bridges of understanding through this mutual idea of
being in love as ONE FAMILY COMMUNITY through that Higher Power of love or
God. Being a Communist should NOT be any
more offensive than being a Capitalist or Socialist. These are only economic and political forces
where corruption shall always exist if the practitioners of these systems abuse
the trust and love of all life forms and of our Creator. This is why people caught up in the business
of their own selfish lives will allow hatred, corruption and greed to rule,
because they themselves claim they don’t have the strength, courage and
fortitude to be in love with life. If
like our politicians from the Democrats to the Republicans are destroying that sacred
bond of love and trust, we must take action.
By our example of being in love, we may teach these ignorant, selfish
and infantile Politicians how to live in faith for the common good of all
mankind, how to truly be in love by spending our money on life, not destructive
death forces, which are evil actions, by Politicians who claim a faith, yet do
not practice it in Washington, D.C., DesMoines, or Ft. Mad City Hall. All the way down the line, especially Republicans
who claim some kind of moral superiority, while at the same time bombing
Iraqi’s, while making millions off the backs of the poor, while destroying
God’s environment. They are NOT in
love!!! But, neither are the Democrats
who through abortion and a multitude of other moral sins, equal to the
Republicans.
When we give of our total
love to one another with no exceptions, however, we can then recognize that the
purpose of all our relationships is to see the light of love in everyone we
see. We then can feel more in tune and
in harmony with the universe by extending our unconditional love and
forgiveness to all our relationships however brief or long they may be. As Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D. from the Center
for Attitudinal Healing states, “With every unhealed relationship that becomes
healed, more light and peace and love comes into the world. The awareness of our Oneness becomes more
apparent as the illusions of separation begin to disappear. To experience LOVE as our only reality that
matters in life, all we need do is constantly give it away and be thankful for
this gift of being in love that has been bestowed on us mere humans by our
Creator”.
Being in love begins at home
first with ourselves and those who should be closest to us. We can’t be in love with God or others if
first we don’t love ourselves, and for some humans, they never escape this
self-imposed prison. Yet, the vast
majority of us live within the selfish range more or less, including at times me. I get angry or frustrated with people who
don’t freely share their love or exhibit any love at all. My disgrace is in my action or speech of
angry and childish words to attempt to hurt them for not loving, while at the
same time I am not exhibiting any love for them at that particular moment. I must either accept where they are in their
life’s journey towards being truly in love or I must role model back what love
is for them to witness if they are paying any attention. Next time a doctor or nurse tries to walk
past me without a smile or greeting, I must continue to smile and say hello. When a doctor or nurse’s tone or condescending
attitude towards me erupts to the surface I must question them why they are
being so mean at the time. Help them
understand the perception they are giving off towards me or others. For the last several years, I have been very
disappointed with my Dad’s side of the family, because when asked to contribute
to the teaching of God’s love for all the universe, they turned their backs on
me and God. My very own Grandmother
walked away from us both, and failed even to write to me in prison. I want them to know that I forgive them and
wish them to be a part of my life now and forever, but I will continue to ask
them to give to God and others, just as I will do with my ex-wife, my two
children and my parents. Love is
unconditional if it is real love from God, which humans must practice to
survive and be in harmony with the universe.
I realize weekly my failures of being in love, but there is only one
kind of certainty in my life, which I too have ignored and turned my back on in
life since I was a teenager or possibly younger. And, this kind of certainty comes only once
in a person’s life, ones own purpose or vocation for existence in this vast
universe. It has taken me almost 43
years to come to realize and accept as the truth; after two children from two
different women, excessive selfishness in my twenties and early thirties, an
affair, lusting for sex, overabundance of alcohol, several misdemeanor
offences, a failed marriage and work history that I don’t just love God, but, I
am in love with God!!! I want to pursue
my calling from God to become a priest.
I feel this love in the depths of my soul and heart. It is unlike all other love for a woman or my
parents and children. I would die for
this love in God and God’s created. I
finally see this as my moment of truth and sincerity that I have walked away
from since the fifth grade, while playing with my boyhood friend, Andy Tomasko
in his basement. We would both play
church taking turns as the priest. I
remember those days as if it were yesterday.
He went on from high school and college and became Fr. Drew Tomasko,
while I tried to be faithful through my peace and social justice work and
writings, only to lead a failed and corrupted life built on lies, deceit and
unfulfillment. I am so dearly sorry God
and all the failed relationships throughout my brief life at this point and
stage in time. It is time for me to get
on with the business of being in love with my God and all the living on this
fabulously gorgeous earth. So, as you
can see, I am not sitting in judgment of anyone else’s lack of being in love
with their God and each other, just helping to make you aware of my very own
revelation on this exciting proposition to be in love with God and all of
humanity. That they go hand in hand,
non-separately, tied and interconnectable like the web of life. I, like many of you are yearning for a love
that is unconditional and boundless. I
have found it in others through my love in God; I can now be in love
universally and without constrictions.
Our relationship with God is our relationship with ourselves, because
the divine in us is who we essentially are.
The crazy idea that we are separate from God and each other is merely an
illusion of consciousness. Without love,
only darkness and fear exist in a never-ending vacuum.
“Love, compassion, and
tolerance are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them, humanity cannot survive,” His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
If you have a particular
faith or religion, that is good. But you
can survive without it if you have love, compassion, and tolerance. The clear proof of a person’s love of God is
if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings and co-workers. Great compassion is the caring of other’s suffering,
not your own, and wanting to do something about it, hence love is a verb. To be able to love we must recognize our
shared human status and accept openly all ideologies and systems as a means of
solving humanity’s social problems. One
way is not sufficient, the
I too believe that the denial
of our connection with the Mother aspect, the feminine aspect of the deity, is
one of the major obstacles to achieving that meaningful and fulfilling being in
love not only with the deity, but with one another. We all can observe the element of the
feminine, of the Mother, of the nurturer, from our experiences of having a
Mother. The Great Mother also has a dark
aspect, however: the transformative aspect of reclaiming life at death. But to have been deprived of that motherly
dimension in the deity reflects something in our Male dominator society: a
deadening of empathy, a deadening of caring and compassion and tolerance, a
denial of the feminine in men, and a contempt for women and all that is perceived
as feminine such as nature. Being in
love for real with our deity and others is an act of love, an act of service, a
feminine connection of empathy, respect, tolerance and compassion. This is why I’ve stated many times over
again, that the
If I learned nothing else
from college but this, I am truly blessed.
In every age and civilization, three ideas about life and beyond seem to
overlap. The first is that there’s an
infinite, invisible world beyond the world that we experience. The second is that this infinite world is a
part of every human personality. And,
the third is that the purpose of life is to discover this infinite world of
love. I am not telling you to believe in
any religion, dogma or creed, only to open up yourself to this life-giving
source of being in love through service of word and deed of this Infinite Love,
and sharing that Infinite love with the world around you. Listen for your call to this magnificent
Infinite Love and to show how to be in love with all life forms, including the
birds, flowers and the foundation of all life, the Ameba cell. My goal now and into the future is to
experience unconditional love and acceptance and joy for everyone, even those
who are behaving in ways that I find difficult to accept. Since working with patients in a hospital
setting, I’ve come to accept them as they are incomplete, broken and restless –
I only see myself falling in love with them, not seeing them as a job, a
paycheck, an old person or a fat person.
I see them in communion with me, at home at being in love and sharing it
endlessly. It is sacred and holy
work! As Gandhi said, “renounce all
worldly possessions and attachments to everything and enjoy the love of
God”. The results of your actions are
much less important than all the love you continually and daily give away, and
connecting in a loving fashion to everything in the universe. Try it, and see what happens!
My mother does not believe
that I listen to her, but this past January she said something very profound. I was a bit perplexed but later realized what
it meant to me and its application to my life.
To paraphrase my beautiful mother, it went something like this; Scott,
you must be planted to grow and bloom.
All of my adulthood has been one move to another move and on and on, and
from one job to another to one, two, three and now four careers later. Yes, my health has been a determining factor
in many cases, but just as high on the list was my anger at society, and not
playing very well with my co-workers. I
am not at all an easy man to live or work with, as my multitude of former
Supervisors may claim or my ex-wife may testify to that fact. I know now
through prayer and revelation that I need to return home to my roots, and from
where God first started calling me to grow and bloom. I will be returning to my hometown of
As a rose’s purpose is to
grow and become strong enough to bloom.
When you or I finally mature spiritually, you and I can bloom into an
awareness of our Oneness with God and humanity.
Without that awareness, we remain immature, regardless of how much we
have attained in the world materialistically, intellectually, or emotionally. Being…IN
LOVE will give us everything that matters, yet nothing that matters to the
selfish and loveless masses, especially in the ranks of earthly money and
power. Our hearts and souls earnest
desire should not come from consumerism and materialism, but from our spiritual
realization of love. Eventually we
become at one with the love of God and humanity. But, I do invite all to join with me in
loving our Creator and all of Creation.
This is an open-ended invitation, no need to R.S.V.P, come as you are,
no matter what walk of life or what path you follow. Join in the celebration of being…IN LOVE!!!
“The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in
action,”
MOTHER TERESA
God Bless The World…IN LOVE,
SCOTT P. DIEHL
scottaloysius@yahoo.com