Fred Rodgers, he of the masterful television program, Mister Rodgers' Neighborhood, tells us that, “Love is at the root of everything—all learning, all relationships—love, or the lack of it.” Of this, Mr. Rodgers is absolutely right, and each of us would do well to remember that what each one of our communities requires more than anything, when it comes to necessary resources, is truly love, first and foremost. That is to say, as much as we need good parenting, good educational system, good cohesion, fairness, justice, and liberty; at the foundation of all that is good and worthwhile has to be, our expressed love one to another, that we so demonstrate thereby by being a good neighbor, to one another.
Our world is full of an awful lot of sound and fury, of which, it must be said, much material success has come from this; but in reality, though, despite all of the wonderful creations, discoveries, and inventions of this modern day age, those that live in the richest and wealthiest nations in the world, aren't necessarily happier and more fulfilled over those that live within realms of far more modest means; for material things, no matter how pretty, intricate, or valuable that they may appear to our eyes, ultimately do not bring happiness or love, but rather are far too often, through the lust and greed to obtain such, a source of much disappointment and divisiveness that breaks us apart, and therefore does not bind us into something of lasting meaning and merit.
All that we are, and all that we ever will be, is summed by the actions and deeds that we have done, day-by-day, one to another, and when those actions and deeds are nothing much more than an unrelenting course of gratifying our own selfish desires, come what may, then the end result of such is always going to be a construct that lacks love and empathy for the other and this world. On the other hand, when we take the time to truly comprehend that we are all equally created and are thereby equally valued by our Creator, and that each one of us has the very same unalienable rights, of which, therefore this thereby signifies that we are all one big global interrelated family, which thereby does not define itself by the limitations of creed, race or sex; then it becomes far easier to picture, that doing right and performing good deeds, one to another, is going to be conducive to a more loving and caring world, along with it being the only way forward to make such, sustainable and of true value, now and into the future.
Those that do not value love, are those that have lost sight of the only thing that truly matters; for a life without love, is a life which has turned away from the illuminating Light of God, to the darkness of utter despair. All of us need to be more loving, for our very creation was an act of divine love, meant to give us the opportunity as free-will beings to freely express that love from one to another, and therefore as united beings to reflect in devotion our love back to that Perfect Being that first created us.