What the world needs now

There is an old song that says, "what the world needs now is love sweet love..." and indeed it is so.

As human beings we live in our own little worlds and there are few things as powerful as feeling a bond and connection to another human being in the journey of life.

How comforting is it to know when we share our sorrows there is someone to hear it and bear it with us?

How much pleasure is there when we are happy about something and to see someone else smile too?

How re-assuring is it when we know we have failed and yet we look up from the ground and are in wonder and awe and say, "You are still here?"

In Sunday school hour, with the junior high students, we were talking about how when we are together swapping stories, how do we know we are talking about stuff God would be pleased with? How do we know if it is things Satan would be cheering on?

Does it build us up? Does it build others up? Does it make us happy? Does it help us feel a greater connection with each other?

Indeed, some good criteria to go by.

So many movies and things we talk about cater to the worst in us as humans! We sometimes are looking for the bad stuff.

One student chimed in with a Bible verse which turned out to be just the right one to end our time together:

Philippians 4:8 -- Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.

Amen, little sister!