Treat Others As Your Equal

About this poem

Once asked, What is the greatest commandment, the Greatest Master of Life responded: “To love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your strength, and with all your soul. And the second is like unto it. To love your neighbor as yourself.” This metaphysical, this alchemical response, when fully grasped, is a solicitous invitation for us as Homo Sapiens, all “made in the image of God,” to recognize and appreciate with gratitude that the Gift of Life is a divine Love Offering granted equally to all of us as a compassionate loan, while we live and breathe, and have our being; and which each of us, in recompense, must preserve, treasure, and apply compassionately and, even more importantly, which we are asked to build upon and share with compassionate love before, towards the end of our days, it is returned in manifold proportions to its divine realm. Life, as a gift, is a divine loan that is offered humanity with a promissory note of fellowship, in unity with our Divine Maker. more »