This heartfelt message reflects a yearning for unity, love, and a return to compassion amidst turbulent times. It acknowledges the instability of the modern world, the “tit for tat atrocities” and contrasts it with a hopeful vision where foundational love for humanity and family can restore peace. It subtly critiques the insufficiency of past preparations for present-day chaos, calling for spiritual awakening and human reconnection. “One Love,” a phrase famously linked to Bob Marley, underscores universal oneness and Divine love.
“One Love Restored”
Love ones, in the echoes of life’s rise and fall,
When the morning breaks but shadows still call,
May we remember not just with mind but with soul,
That goodness still flows, that Love makes us whole.
Foundations we forged in a different day’s light,
Were stones of peace, not made for today’s fight.
So now we reel from the wounds tit for tat,
Trading grace for grievance, and mercy for spat.
But oh! — there is a River whose stream makes glad,
The city of God when hearts grow sad.
Love, not anger, is the banner unfurled,
To heal the wounds of a broken world.
Shall we not rise? Not in might, but in grace,
With hearts turned heavenward, seeking God’s face?
For family, for neighbor, for stranger, for friend,
Let love be the means and peace be the end.
And so we await, with hands open wide,
A healing of nations, where justice won’t hide.
Til then we press on, though weary we move,
For One Love remains God’s eternal groove.
Amen to the harmony, the kingdom to come,
Where the lion and lamb lie down as one.
Until that day, let us boldly live on
With hope in our hearts, and the Spirit our song.
One Love. One Faith. One Lord. One Aim.
To love as we’re loved and never the same.
Beloved,
As we journey together through the ever-changing tides of life, the highs and the lows, the joys and the sorrows, let us pause for a sacred moment of reflection.
Let us not lose sight of this truth:
Life, despite its trials, still holds goodness.
It offers grace, healing, and beauty, to each and every one of us even when the world feels heavy, even when the road feels long.
There was a time when we laid foundations — with hope, with faith, with love.
But those foundations, though earnest and well-intended, did not always prepare us for the weight of what we now face.
And so, here we are…
Caught in cycles of pain — tit for tat, wound for wound, offense for offense.
We’ve replaced connection with conflict.
Mercy with retaliation.
But I say to you today:
It does not have to remain this way.
There is a higher way.
A Holy way.
And that way is Love.
Not a soft, passive kind of love but a fierce, redemptive, healing love.
The love that sees through anger.
The love that breaks down walls.
The love that restores what has been lost, family, community, and humanity.
And so I pray and invite you to pray this with me in spirit
That in time, our love for people, our love for family,
our love for neighbor and even for the stranger…
would rise again.
That we would remember who we are —
not divided souls fighting for survival —
but children of the same CREATOR,
called to live in harmony.
Until that day comes, we press on.
With hope in our hearts.
With kindness in our hands.
With faith in a God who still moves, who still heals, and who still reigns.
One Love. One Faith. One People
Let us live like we believe that.
Amen