meditatio at the water's edge

Love 1 another - page 1
I keep wondering... what if we got serious about loving one another? We've been moving thru I Peter (in the Bible) over the past couple of months, and Peter continues to use language that talks about how we are to treat one another... such as "Love one another deeply from the heart." The book is filled with this kind of language.

Somehow we've put so much emphasis on "Love God" and we've put so little on "Love one another." I'm beginning to wonder if we've messed up the "Love God" part by putting so much emphasis on it, and in turn we've failed to adequately "Love One Another."

What if the first command isn't actually primary to our understanding of faith but... what if love of others/neighbor is of equal significance. Somehow we've put a level of priortity on the first part, and I wonder if we put too little emphasis on the second part; I'm not convinced that was ever God's intent.

What if we really cared about fellow man/woman/child as created in God's image... what if we utterly detested all war, all poverty, lack of adequate water supply for millions of people and lack of health care... what if we cared as much about those things as we do about funding another church building project?