EXPRESSING LOVE

“Love your neighbor as yourself.” -Leviticus 19:18

Why does the Torah say, “love your neighbor” instead of “love all of humanity”? It is easy to love a starving child in the Sudan, it does not cost much financially or emotionally. It takes effort to love neighbors when their garbage spills onto our lawn or their music shatters our eardrums. It requires great tolerance to coexist amiably with a neighbor whose outlook or lifestyle is opposed to ours.

Glimmer this: the Micah community takes inclusivity seriously and loves its members regardless of their sexuality, political preference, economic status, race, etc.…you name it! And we do our best to love our neighbors for who they are too. This year that diversity was on full display time and time again as we came together to hold space and support each other and all the many feelings we were feeling. Let’s do it again in the coming weeks!

-The Prophet Micah

P.S.. we also felt the love and support this year FROM many of our Christian and other neighbors!