ON LOVE & UNDERSTANDING
Posted by william on Feb 22nd, 2009
I heard that Mother Teresa said something to the effect that the American people are the poorest of all because they so lack love. Thoughts of people hungering for love lead in my mind to “understanding.” I’m sure that to some extent the two are the same, except that love is a wider, more inclusive concept than understanding. Still, I think that understanding alone opens the possiblity of love, even encourages it. True, we can love without understanding a person because we know that person is a child of God. And we can love God without understanding Him, because He first loved us.
