Short story: A sermon on love

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Reverend Patal Gerbroskja, used to begin most of his weekly sermons, with a short poem of his own, and then he would talk about what it meant. Last Sunday was no different, and Reverend Patal started with this short poem. The energy of life, lives in strife, until we embrace love, and then it comes from above. He then went on to say that: "Life lived without love is an empty life, as it is not being lived from the true energy of love, but just from an empty life vessel, filled with its own energy, that comes to it from life, eating, drinking, and breathing, the life process, in short." "Love comes to us from our making a connection to God, and allowing his love to flow through us, guiding us in our living, and using us as a vehicle to pass God's love onto others too." "When we are not living from love, we are living a selfish life, a me-directed life, when we should be living from love, and loving God, and others, too." "We think that we love, when we love from human love, but we must move this love up a notch to God love, the deepest, and the truest form of love." "Our hearts must keep burning with this love, so that we never cease loving God, and all parts of his creation too." "Our love should not be self-serving, in that we try to obtain something from it other than just bathing in this love, for ourself, for God, and for others. This is loving by thinking of the well-being of others, as we love. Love should be lived from wisely then, and we should hurt no-one in our living." The Reverend then quoted this verse from the Bible, for his congregation to think over in its relation to his talk on love too. 1 John, chapter 4, verse 8 states, "Whoever does not love, does not know God, because God is love." And with that, the good Reverend concluded his sermon, for that week. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Reverend Patal was old, but his face beamed with his love for God.