Short story: A Rabbi's talk on love is upstaged by a young boy

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Rabbi Arlet Resklacke was talking to his group of students about love. He was talking rather heavily, and he had lost some of his students along the way of his talk. "Love lives alone in you until you live alone in it." "This means that you must have a one to one connection and relationship to love, for it to be fully alive in you, powering you to be fully alive in it too." "Love requires of you only one thing, and that is to love, or to be compassionately opened by love to allow the kindness of connectiveness to live via you to others." and so on he went, until he was disrupted. A young student held his hand high at the back of the room. "I love my dog," he said. "Am I connected to my dog, by this love too?" The Rabbi smiled, and replied. "Yes, kindness to our pets, is a connection of love. Recognising such a connection of love is what kindness always does. Making that connection come alive requires allowing your love to connect." "Love is the allowance of love to be itself within our self, without any judgement ever being given out from ourselves." The boy looked puzzled still, and said, "I love my dog, by putting him first, that's all." Let God's love carve you into God's masterpiece for himself. Do not try to carve love up too much with your mind. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Let your love naturally flow from yourself to others; do not hold it up with your mind first.