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My speech. Please give feedback.
Hello, I am new to this site and wanted some feedback on a speech I'm giving about "Love in Action" for some of my classmates on a retreat (Thats what Kairos is in the speech). Thanks.
Someone once said “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” I feel that this is a perfect quote because there really is no reason to live without love. We are all stuck here on Earth for a while so we might as well get along. The golden rule says treat others as you would like to be treated and I can guarantee no one in this room likes to be hated or made to feel less then a beautiful creature created by God, so then no one in this room has the right to hate or to bring other people down. There is a lot of hate and violence in this world and there is only one thing that can stop this, and that is love. And some may say I am just one person, I can not change the world, well the only thing that makes that true is you believing it. It‘s not too late to change the world, and it starts with love. Love is not just a word, love is an action, love is putting the interest of another human being in front of your own, love is looking at another person knowing that you would do anything in your power to make them happy. I believe that love is contagious, if you show love then you get love. If you take one thing from my speech please take this, love is God’s greatest gift to the human race and we should use it as often as we can for love is the most powerful emotion one can have for another human being and if everyone is busy looking out for one another then they have no time to look out for themselves and that is where problems arise. In my view there are four types of love and they are as follows.
The first type of love is love for ones family. And when I think about my life I think of how lucky I am to have two parents who love me and are willing to make sacrifices for me. Everyone in this room lucky enough to have parents who love them should never take it for granted. Your parents make a lot of sacrifices for you and like it or not they are the reason you are here today. You literally owe them your life. Don’t be embarrassed to tell your parents you love them, in fact tell them as often as you can that you love them. My parents and I most definitely don’t always see eye to eye but we both know that we always love each other. I have been blessed with an amazing family, from my brother, my sister, my cousins, my aunts, my uncles and everything in between, and for this I am truly grateful. This is an easier type of love to show because its kind of understood that you love one another, but that doesn’t mean you can’t remind them every once in a while with the words or with the actions of love.
The second type of love is love for ones friends. This is another thing that I am extremely grateful for and something that I feel I have been blessed with, and that is many great friends and I love them all. This love is a little bit harder to show and more subtle. This is more of a tough love, you give each other a hard time but you know without saying that you always have one another’s back. I don’t tell my friends that I love them because it makes me feel awkward, but in reality it should never feel awkward to tell someone you love that you in fact love them. This is kind of a backwards world where people feel more comfortable expressing and showing hate then they do love and that doesn’t make any sense to me. So never be afraid to tell your friends you love them and even though it might seem like it doesn’t need to be said, in reality it does. Your friends are the people who are there for you when you think no one else is, your friends are the people who get you when no one else does, and even if they don’t, they try. My friends are extremely important to me as I’m sure they are to you and don’t let them doubt it for a minute.
The third type of love is love for a stranger. Love for someone you don’t even know. This love is the hardest love to show, this love is one that even I, the great and powerful Grawe has trouble with. There are just some people that get to me and I’m hard pressed to find a reason to love them, but as I think about it I can think of at least one reason to love them and it’s all the reason I need, and that reason is they are a member of the human race created cell by cell by God. This is the type of love that separates the men from the boys. This type of love is showed more by actions then it is by words. Whether by a simple action such as opening a door for someone, or as great as a fireman laying down his life for a complete stranger in a burning building. This type of love is the true test of life for it is easy to love someone you know loves you, but the true test is loving someone who may not love you back, and when you’re faced with someone who is mean or dismissive of you, you have two options. You can be part of the problem and return the favor, or you can be part of the solution and show them love even though they have shown you none. If you can do this then you are a truly special person. Never, ever, ever be too busy to listen to someone, because sometimes the best thing you can give someone is your time and attention. No one is better then the person next to them, because God spent just as much time, energy, and love creating them as he did you, so remember that next time you see someone you don’t get along with.
The last type of love is ones love for God. The way this is shown is simply all of the above. God is in each and everyone of us and the best way to show God that you love him is to live his children, and we are all his children, and like any good father he would rather see his children happy then himself. God is the kid in class who no one talks to, God is the jock with all of the friends, God is your family, and God is your friends. God wants us to live as Jesus Christ did, and Jesus lived a life where he loved the very people who ended his mortal life. Jesus made a point of putting others in front of yourself even if it means sacrifice. For love like many things is great in part because it isn’t easy to do. Love of God means doing what is right even when it isn’t easy, and love is never wrong and rarely easy.
In closing I would like to say this. One of the hardest days of my life was the first day I came back from Kairos. The reason is because I had just spent three days with my peers where it wasn’t weird to be nice to each other and show love, and it wasn’t weird to be yourself and everyone accepted you for who you were, and then I went back into the “Real World” and realized that not everyone on earth went to Kairos and experienced the amazing feeling of love in action. I looked around at people wearing masks and people bringing other people down and it depressed me and all of my feelings of hope that the world could someday be a better place had suddenly left me. But I then said to myself, “Who’s to say the Kairos world can be the same as the real world, who’s to say that if I be the best person I can be and love all members of the human race then why in the hell couldn’t the world be like Kairos?” And this is a question I want all of you to ask yourselves, how can the world become a better place? And even though you may not know the answer at least be able to tell yourself that you will be a part of the solution and you will do all that you can to make sure that it does. The last thing that I want to tell all of you is that I love you and I will leave you with this quote, “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
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