A prayer to love our neighbor by Tiffany Tabalt, read by Lea Martin.

Love your neighbor as yourself, Mark 1231.

We live in a fallen world.

It's a world of self gratification, a world full of hurting people.

The theme of our society has become what's most important in life is that each of us

be more self-focused, more self-satisfied, and insist more on our opinions,

regardless of anyone else's. Turn on any news channel or talk show or

scroll through social media and it won't take long until you start to see a common thread.

Everyone has an opinion and everyone feels that their opinion is what matters most,

regardless of how it's said, regardless of how it's enforced, and regardless of how it's delivered.

Growing up, I was taught, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.

I often think about that phrase as I see the ugly delivery of opinions, beliefs, and personal

rights increasing in the past few years. Yet behind all that pain that you see and all the ugly

words that you hear, the reality is that it all pours out from hurting hearts, hours, and theirs.

The truth is that there absolutely needs to be a change in our society.

The Bible gives us a better solution to change our world than all the yelling and fighting we see in

the news. Jesus told us to love our neighbor as ourselves. Love. That change can start with one

person, and that change must start with me. That change must start with you. Love your neighbor

as yourself. The kind neighbor absolutely easy to do. No one who's rude, intolerant, angry,

and pushing their opinion on me, surely the Lord didn't mean that neighbor? Yes. He did. Love

your neighbor as much as you love yourself. Love your neighbor as well as you love yourself.

Love your neighbor means that you are helping them, not hurting them. It means respecting them,

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