Ubi caritas, et amor, Deus ibi est.

Where love is, and compassion, there is God. Or is it, where God is, there is love and compassion? Which comes first? Do our loving actions call God to be present, or does God's presence make us loving and compassionate? Option A: Love first. This means that we are capable of love without God's help and He arrives to bless our loving actions - give us a pat on the back, so to speak. So, the burden for making the world a better place is ours. Option B: God first. God is omnipresent, according to most Christians, and He is love, so love is omnipresent. Ok. So, why do we read of people like Kony and places like Sudan, where the lack of love and compassion is so clear and sickening? Is the burden for making the world a better place God's and He has decided to take the day off? Or is it Option C? Knowing God and knowing love is not a human thing at all and it is impossible for us to do so without Him. So, unless we surrender to Him and His love, humans will not know His love. Therefore, there will be places and people who make it look like He is absent, because they are trying to run the show their way. And there are places and people who are conduits for His love and make it visible to others, because they have surrendered to Him and serve His kingdom. Thus, His kingdom comes on Earth as it is in Heaven? So, the burden for making the world a better place is God's, but he chooses to use human servants. I am leaning towards option C. Whether I'm right, I don't know. Whether others choose differently, I don't really care. I know one thing: I choose love.