Agape

I was inspired by a beautiful hand-painted present from my niece. It challenged me, to admire the beautiful around me.... In a city like London is it often hard to see beauty around me. I see sadness, anger, bitterness, decay and destruction.

But, each day I awake challenged to see the smile across from me... I awake challenged to count how many pink shirts I can see on the way to work... Yes there is beauty in this wonderous people of London. (they are just sometimes hard to love)

It got me thinking of all sorts of notions ... but I think this quote by a great man surmises it best

" Agape is the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill toward all men. Agape is the overflowing love, which seeks nothing in return. Theologians would say that it is the love of God operating in the human heart. When you rise to love on this level, you love all men not because you like them, not because their ways appeal to you, but you love them because God loves them."

- Martin Luther King. Jr