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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nI was reminded of that missions\u2019 trip when I saw our majordomo\u2019s assistant, Ross, playing chess with my grandson. That came about because the boys and I went to a flea market to see if we could \u201cwheel and deal\u201d for bargains. We love that experience. This day Brennan, who is a tournament chess player, bought a unique chess set. Back at our villa, Ross saw the chess set and in his few words of English, shared that he plays chess. Later that day I saw him and Brennan, my grandson, playing. No words spoken, but laughter, intense pondering and shaking hands at the end assured me that love was spoken there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dionne Warwick sang \u201cWhat the world needs now is love sweet love. It\u2019s the only thing that there\u2019s just too little of\u201d and it is so true. If only we lived that way \u2013 the Gospel way. The Jesus way \u2013 of laying down His life for even those who despised and rejected Him. The love Jesus spoke of: \u201cLove God first, and second, love your neighbors as you love yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While watching two young men playing chess, I kept hearing these words in my mind: \u201cLove in any language fluently spoken here.\u201d I googled those words and found they were lyrics from a song sung by Sandi Patty. Those words convey my message of love for us today:
\u201cJe t’aime \/ Te amo \/ Aishiteru \/ Ani ohevet othka \/ I love you \/
The sounds are all as different as the lands from which they came \/
And though our words are all unique \/ Our hearts are still the same \/
Love in any language, straight from the heart \/ Pulls us all together, never apart \/
And once we learn to speak it \/ all the world will hear \/ Love in any language, fluently spoken here<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We teach the young our differences \/ Yet look how we’re the same
We love to laugh, to dream our dreams \/ We know the sting of pain
From Leningrad to Lexington \/ The farmer loves his land \/
And daddies all get misty-eyed \/ To give their daughter’s hand \/
Oh, maybe when we realize \/ How much there is to share \/
We’ll find too much in common \/ To pretend it isn’t there \/
Though the rhetoric of government \/ May keep us worlds apart \/
There’s no misinterpreting \/ The language of the heart \/
Love in any language, straight from the heart \/ Pulls us all together, never apart \/
And once we learn to speak it, all the world will hear \/ Love in any language, fluently spoken here.\u201d
The story about Jesus\u2019 conversation with the Samaritan woman is about how a religiously ostracized, and culturally despised group came to belief in Jesus. While it may be interesting to talk about the woman\u2019s irregular life or about Jesus\u2019 relations with women, it misses the point. It was the fluent message of love that broke down all the barriers and boundaries. And, that is the fluent language of love He asks for us to give \u2013 no matter what. No matter who!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This \u201cLove\u201d and \u201cHeart\u201d art were displayed outside the gift shop at our hotel in Cabo. I knew a blog would be forthcoming when I snapped this photo. Please forgive me for yet another blog that was inspired from our trip. I thank God for so much content! I remember my husband, myself and our…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12469,20161],"tags":[1210,19062,1769,6561,3826,2495,40,20154,20156,1077,132,20155,20157,20159,2868,12344,20158,17649,5277,5250,1221,20160],"class_list":["post-14085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love","category-love-language","tag-blog","tag-chess","tag-christian","tag-differences","tag-dionne-warwick","tag-heart","tag-inspiration","tag-language","tag-language-barriers","tag-laughter","tag-love","tag-love-barriers","tag-love-fluently-spoken","tag-love-god-first","tag-love-language","tag-love-sweet-love","tag-love-without-words","tag-love-your-neighbors","tag-mexico","tag-missions-trip","tag-samaritan-woman","tag-sandi-patty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14089,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14085\/revisions\/14089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}