1 Corinthian 13:13 And the greatest of these is love.....
Love 1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
The religions of the world are like five blind men holding the individual parts of an elephant, each blind man thinks that the elephant is like the part his that he is holding, where in fact the elephant is actually all parts of the whole.
What Gives Me Hope
Witnessing god consciousness in another human being
Nature and wildlife, the environment
Children
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by
Find a way to feed the world and meet the needs of those who suffer.
Take the power out of the hands of multinational corporations.
Find a way to fund infrastructure so all can be housed , clothed and fed in all nations.
What/who changed my life and why
Amazing Grace as it is a true example love and of the power of , belief and conviction.
-1 Corinthian 13:13 as I believe it summarizes what the Christian bible should be truly about and what mankind has forgot.
Proverbs of any kind because they are born from a real passion and belief of the soul.
My grandfathers because they were men of heart, truth and soul.
"We are the world" as it helps to restore my faith in human nature.
"The Sea Shepherd" desperately needs support, please help her by helping to fund fuel for expeditions to the Antarctic. Any other ships donated or otherwise would be welcome!
I pray you hear what I am saying, "The Sea Shepherd is making the last stand for the existence of the whales all by herself.
The current moment is imperative as some of these whale species stand at their last bastion of existence.
Imagine if the Wright, the Blue and the Humpack species are only in their six to 700's and the Japanese are non-discriminately harvesting a minimum of 50 of these whales per year and those figures were discovered in the the mid 90's and they've been whaling ever since???
Greenpeace in it's infinite wisdom have redirected it's funding to educating the youth in Japan to the practice and facts of the Japanese whalers. This is important but how effective will it be when there are no whales left to save???
"The Sea Shepherd" is desperately in need of funding for fuel so she can put herself in between the Japanese and the whales, chasing the Japanese whalers to prevent them from whaling.
In the mid 1990's I was a transcription typist on "The Last Whales" funded by Greenpeace and produced by David Bradbury and Youngheart Productions.
I listened to the testimonies of Russian diplomats from the UN as they described the figures that were released after their previous government had fallen. The larger whales populations were now estimated to be in their 6 to 700's, and not in their thousand as had been estimated. This was shock not only for the scientific communty, but also for the world as we realized that the whales were much closer to extinction that previously thought.