“What the world needs now is Love, sweet love.” The words of this song could not be more true now. God is love. God so loved the world he sent his son, the baby Jesus we celebrated two weeks ago, who grew up to be our savior. From the first reading, “If God so loved us, we also must love one another.” I am constantly discouraged by all the hate in the world. It often seems to me that hate has won, and I hate that. There’s so much violence, so much discrimination. “Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us.” The best way to love God is to share the love God has for us.
God loved us so much he gave us this world, and each other, and his son as savior. But rather than returning that love too many respond with hate and destruction, greed and selfishness. What the world needs now is love, and from the song, “no, not just for some but for everyone.”
“God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.” When we love, God is acting in us and through us. God is love and love is God. We share in that love, and need to share it with the world.
Tamora Whitney
I teach in the English department. I teach composition and literature and Critical Issues -- a class that has a component on Jesuit values.
I like writing these reflections because it makes me think more deeply about the scripture and think about how to integrate the ideas into my own life and how to share these ideas with others.
