I found this picture online and fell in love with it.
As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints, we have literally been taught in scriptures, in lessons, in music to LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
Period.
End of sentence.
We have not been told to love one another unless they are a different color, or a different gender, or homosexual, or a different shape, or from a different place on the planet.
Just to love one another.
Unfortunately, I feel like members of the Church are some of the quickest to judge and to push people out.
I follow Papa Ostler on Instagram and I love this man.
He does a podcast and always has members of the Church who are homosexual, or who have addictions, or who have really struggled in the Church and in the world for various reasons.
He shows SO much love and so much respect - no different than he would show the Prophet.
His entire purpose is to stop the hate and the judgement and the "holier than thou" mentality and I love him for it.
Our job is to love one another.
It is never our job to judge.
Like, ever.
We are ALL mortal.
We are ALL broken.
We are ALL unworthy, yet completely worthy all at the same time.
We are ALL children of God.
There ain't no one here who is not a child of God.
No one.
The Prophet talked quite a bit in this last conference about stopping the hate, the racism, the violence.
Knock it off.
If we are supposed to be representatives of Christ, let's act like it.
Starting with me.
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