Give Love Instead of Reasons

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This post is for everyone, but especially for you. You … the cause-and-effect type of person. You … the person that needs to find a reason for why things happen. You … the person who ‘knows’ the answers.

I understand. I am one of you. I like answers. I ask why … all the time. Which means this post is for me as much as it is for anyone else.

As much as I would like a reason for everything … I have learned that many times there are no reasons.

There are many different religions that give many different reasons as to why things happen. There are many scientific reasons given for why things happen. There are many other reasons given for why things happen. Your sister’s husband’s cousin’s daughter’s boyfriend’s uncle probably has a reason for everything.

There are many mysteries … mysteries happened in the past, they happen in the present and they will happen in the future. So it is ridiculous for any one of us to assume we know why a massive earthquake and tsunami happened off the coast of Japan this morning.

We will hear many things … I started listing all the reasons people might give, but it felt too insensitive to type them, even in a sarcastic tone, so please don’t say or write them.

Right now a country is devastated and many of it’s people have lost someone they love … a spouse, parent, friend, child, baby. Their world will never be the same again.

And to have someone, anyone, (even you) say why it happened will only add to their pain. Please don’t do that.

And you … who feel the Bible gives you a reason and you should tell the world — it doesn’t and you shouldn’t. Yes, you can find verses that talk about being prepared, ready and looking for signs … but I don’t recall the Bible ever asking us to produce reasons for why things happen. But the Bible does give clear instructs about loving others. All others.

So stop giving reasons and instead give love.

Love by giving money instead of reasons.

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  • http://goinswriter.com Jeff Goins

    Well said!

  • http://www.julie-thegoingtobenewme.blogspot.com Julie

    I think we are programmed to ask why, seek answers and then ask more why’s. But we learn and move on and learn some more. This is such an excellent and thought provoking post. Thank you for sharing.

    Also thank you for stopping by and your kind comment. Take care and God Bless!!

    • http://janetober.com Janet Ober

      Julie, thanks for visiting.
      Being programmed to ask questions is great … we need to do it even more. But to everything there is a season … after a tragedy is probably the time to love not ask questions.

  • Anna

    Thank you so much for putting this out there! I will never forget waking up on Friday morning to news of the Earthquake and pending Tsunami, only to find my facebook feed COVERED in predictions of the end times and God’s punishment for a sinful world.

    I was flabberghasted. People on the other side of the world have watched their homes and families be torn apart, they’ve watched their family members die and worried about people they couldn’t track down… and this is what the people I call ‘friends’ were worried about?

    Ultimately, we will never know what tomorrow holds. What we do know is that there are people who are suffering and need our love and support, and we know that God has called us to be his hands and feet — ESPECIALLY in times such as these.

    Seriously, thank you for putting thought to word so much more eloquently than I ever could have!

    • http://janetober.com Janet Ober

      Thanks for coming by, Anna … and thanks for your kind words.
      And for adding your thoughts – I totally agree that suffering people need our love and support, not predictions or assumptions.

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