ONLY LOVE IS TRUTH AND TRUTH IS LOVE

In this poem, I am reflecting on LOVE which is the accomplishment of our life as rational beings and as Christians. Do we really love each other? Do we really love one another as Christ taught us? Most of the time we are confused and we are cheating ourselves with the external signs, gestures and appearances. We stay there and we think that we love.

Is it enough to say from the appearances that we love each other? I don’t think so. Love is more than appearances. Love goes deeply into our hearts and transforms us. ONLY LOVE IS TRUTH AND TRUTH IS LOVE. If we discover Truth within us, we discover at the same time Love in us and vise-versa, and then we are able to go beyond simple pretensions which are only lies. Only TRUE LOVE, from our hearts, is the therapy to the sickness of our actual world. As rational beings not to love each other is to deny, to betray our rationality.

But only God knows our hearts. He knows our truth. He knows if we really do love or not. He knows if by our attitudes we are cheating one another or not! He knows our inside than we do.

Let us reflect together on these few words.

J’aime, j’aime, j’aime,

Je ne sais pas pourquoi j’aime

Je ne sais pas ce que j’aime

Je ne connais pas qui j’aime

Est-ce que j’aime vraiment ?

Comme le Christ nous aime tendrement ?

Du jour au jour depuis le commencement

Ou je n’aime pas tellement

Saluer quelqu’un est-ce l’aimer ?

Faire la charité à quelqu’un, est-ce l’aimer ?

Vivre avec quelqu’un à ses cotés, est-ce l’aimer ?

Accepter le fardeau de l’autre, est-ce l’aimer ?

N’est-ce pas là une confusion

Ou une simple prétention

Qui n’est qu’une trahison

De ce que nous avons comme mission

Jour après jour, je me demande

Si j’aime comme Dieu le recommande

Pour que ma prière soit un remède

A tant de maux dans ce monde.

By Dieudonné BIAKULUILA