The Purpose

What if love was the whole purpose?

What if love was the only commandment that mattered,

the single reason we draw breath,

the divine intention behind our existence?

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What if every doctrine, every rule, every ritual

was meant only to lead us back

to this one truth,

that we are here to love one another,

nothing more,

nothing less,

nothing else?

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Then how much have we failed?

How much time have we wasted

building walls,

creating divisions where none were meant to exist,

fighting over details

while missing the entire point?

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What if the test was always simple?

Did you love?

Did you show compassion?

Did you lift up those who stumbled?

Did you see the sacred

in every soul you met?

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All our theologies,

all our philosophies,

all our arguments about who is right and who is wrong,

what if they were distractions from the obvious,

complications of what should have been

beautifully clear?

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Love one another.

Could it be that simple?

Could the meaning of everything

reduce to kindness,

to seeing ourselves in strangers’ eyes,

to treating every person

as precious and worthy?

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What if when we stand before eternity,

the only question asked

is how well we loved,

how generously we gave our hearts,

how deeply we honored

humanity in others?

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Then let us begin again,

here,

now.

Let us strip away everything

that obscures this truth.

Let us make love

our single practice.

Let us fulfill the purpose

for which we were made.