One Final Act

1John 4:7

7Dear friends, let us love one another for love comes from God.

This is part of the scripture that was preached from on Sunday. I want to tell each and every one of you that I love you because God loves you. I may not know you but that doesn't matter. God's love allows strangers to show care and kindness to one another. I know today is Valentine's Day but every day is about love whether commercialized or not.

Yesterday on my commute like many into DC, was inconvenienced because a man jumped in front a train on Metro during Rush Hour. I prayed that he would survive and would come to know God's love as I had relative who was once on a train on the same line that hit a man who did survive. It wasn't the case. The man who jumped died. I prayed for his troubled soul. Most of the jumpers who jump on Metro do it during Rush Hour. They feel as if no one knows them but the one final act will cause them to be noticed, missed and maybe even loved. I am saying this because there are many people who are not aware that God loves them so much and whatever they are facing God will bring them through.  I do know life can be difficult but once I understood that God truly loves me and that I have value to Him, my perspective changed.

Suicide is a very real issue no matter what a person's background. I lost an aunt that way in 2007. She kept saying she was going to do it and no one believed her. On my train ride from Philly I suddenly thought about one of my aunts and placed a phone call to inquire about them. I was then told another family member was thinking of them and a phone call was placed. One aunt was worried about another because she had not heard from her. My cousin was sent to check on her and she found her mother dead with the pictures of family surrounding her. We were all devastated. When someone says such a thing, please be concerned and don't just let them go under the radar. It's their cry for help.

As you go through this day, don't love because it's commercialized. Love because you really actually love and you know that God is love. God's love is beyond the romantic.