Someone sent a message and asked how expressing your belief for or against certain cultural currents equates to love? In other words, how is it love to tell someone you believe they are wrong before or during certain choices. Great question! But let me ask you one.
If you were to watch one of your siblings buy a lot next to yours and start to building their dream home, I would imagine you would probably look out the window and check things out from time to time to see how things are going. You built your house with your own hands so you know exactly how to do it and what material to use.
Now suppose your sibling either purposefully or ignorantly bought very expensive, but yet the wrong type of foundation materials for the base of their soon-to-be beautiful home. You knew how much money and time they put into it, so you don’t say anything. You think it may work, but have a really bad feeling about it. As they started pouring, your heart starts pounding. Why? Would you say something to them? Or would you stay silent?
Now imagine you stayed silent. Deep down over the years of knowing their foundation to their home may not hold up, it eats at you. But you’ve gone this long. So, you keep silent.
One day everything comes crashing down.
They soon come over to your house just devastated. They start explaining they don’t know what could’ve gone wrong. They start asking for your advise. How would you feel at that point? What would you do? Would you then tell them what you knew to be true all along? Or stay silent?
I believe love is sometimes telling people what you know to be true, even if it’s hard truth to deal with. I believe it’s for everyone’s good. I believe that’s real love.
