WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO: Loving Your Neighbor As Yourself

"The lost art of setting a table or simply saying grace...not necessarily to any deity if one doesn't chose but to simply give thanks.
The lost art of taking baked goods to a new neighbor, welcoming people into a neighborhood. The simple rituals and mannerisms of being polite. Whatever happened to those??"

I'm talking about what my grandmother talked about when she would mention growing up and what her parents, and there parents and so on and so forth. See we in America aren't about community anymore. You don't hear it in the new songs we sing, the movies we watch, and the books we read. A good example of this is George Bailey...It's A Wonderful Life....what happened to America? Where are our priorities gone with it comes to showing love with our neighbor, to want to build friendships with those that literally live right next door, at our jobs, and in our schools and colleges?

What about wanting to take time to bring someone new into our lives, and not just meet a quick need and go out the door, but actually allow these "people" to become dare I say....our friends.....so I'm wondering what does friendship mean in America today?

See this love thing and helping others should be so radical that it happens all year long...and to the point it become contagious.

Matthew 25:35

New International Version (NIV)

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,

John 15:13

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13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

   

Mark 12:30-31

New International Version (NIV)

³⁰ Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’^{[a] 31} The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^[b] There is no commandment greater than these.”

Footnotes:

1. Mark 12:30 Deut. 6:4,5
2. Mark 12:31 Lev. 19:18