To begin with, I think that we all need to be loved for who we are. I mean that all of us should know that we are loved without trying to fit in, or without having to fulfill some agenda, without pretending to be something that we are not. You see as I get to make new friends and get involved in their lives, I am not seeking to change them or to coerce them or to try to make them pretend to be something other than just being them (Ok one possible exception to this is if I see someone trying to hurt another, but even then I believe that if we truly loved them we would not want to them to harm another person). I just want to get to know them and to let my love pour out towards them.
When we are loved in this matter, it changes us. It frees us to love others. When we love we act differently. We do not mistreat people. We seek the good of others and we seek to go along beside them when they are struggling.
I believe that if we as a people loved each other then there would be no health crises. There would be no energy crises. There would be no poverty. Our jails would be close to empty. There would be no frivolous law suites that drive up the cost of everything for the rest of us. We would be living in a place that would be the closest thing to an utopia that we can achieve in this lifetime. Those problems that can't be cured like disease and death of love ones, would be more bearable by the love of those around us. When something happened to one of us, everyone else would chip in with repairs, money for bills, and to walk beside us giving a shoulder and ear for the other person's grief.
As a Christian, my own personal belief is that this starts with us realizing the love of God towards us. That He actually loves us this way. It is His love that can change all of us. When we live in this love and let it flow through to others, then there are no need for rules or commandments, because love will show itself to be better than any commandment can make us.
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