The Light 5

Was love the solution to our problems? What did that mean, exactly? Was sacrificial love the solution to our problems? What were we sacrificing? Were we sacrificing the bad parts of ourselves? When we were young, we were supposed to love our parents. They took care of us and protected us from the dangerous, outside world. They also took time to educate us about various aspects of the world so we could form a realistic idea of the world around us. We were supposed to love our parents because they loved us. Our parents first formed the idea of God in our minds. They were able to do so many things we could not do, especially when we were babies. They got so many things for us and made us happy. There was security, there was happiness, and there was love.

As we started to grow up, we began to realize that we could do things for ourselves. Our parents were genuinely happy when we could do things by ourselves. We were growing up. WOW. I can raise my hand. WOW! I can jump. WOW! I can read. There were so many things that we could do. We began to count all the things we can do. There were not enough fingers for us to count all the things that we could do. But there were somethings we did our parents did not like. They did not like it when we spat at them. They did not like it when we complained. They did not like it when we told them they were stupid. We were put in "timeout" in our "rooms" to think about what we did. We looked at the stars, thinking there was another home somewhere in the skies. There was a God. He was our true father and mother. Our earthly parents were not real.