An
Accuser’s voice,
"But
don't you care about what others think of you and what you have done?"
A Lover’s
response,
“Oh I do
care very much. I care about what the One who made me thinks. I care about what
my love feels and thinks. I value highly the opinion and feelings of my
children. I care about those who are most affected by my love.
“I do not
care to hear about the opinions and feelings of insecurity, fear and jealousy.
If, in my loving transcendent beauty, others are provoked to jealousy I am
happy to provoke more love, more care, more respect, more pursuit, for my love
deserves nothing less.
“See if you
can best me in love, in consideration, in loving regard concerning my love. I
am motivated by this, by this pursuit of excellence, by this need to grow in
skill, in art and in devotion and care. My love has always desired and required
this kind of devotion and attention and any callous disregard of this is not my
fault. I am not responsible for the neglect of others, for the hardness of
their hearts, for their manipulations of wealth, power and privilege...these
thing that assault human dignity. If my esteeming of my love and her desires to
a high and holy place provokes the jealousy of self-seekers, what is that to
me?
“I care
about the jealous only in the matter of my love's concern for them as she has had
history with them and time and experience have forged tender bonds. Bonds that
when strummed bring tears and joy to the eyes of my love. Oh I do care about
this for they move my love. I will listen. I will be present with my whole heart
and I will weep with her.
“I am my
own being and have my own unique responses to history too and this has schooled
me in the art of empathy and compassion. If this provokes the jealous response
of others I only feel sorry for their smallness of perception. Perhaps the day
will come when they know this love I experience with my love. Then they would
laugh and celebrate with us, even against their own inclinations.
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