It's All About the Right Relationship :Part 6 Learning To Love Yourself

before we can sustain any type of relationships in this life we need to have the right relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ Jesus said that the first commandment is to love the Lord and the second is to love thy neighbor with the same accord but the problem is when it comes to love some African- americans don't have a clue as a people of color we're dealing with racism and PTSS too Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome has on my people taken a toll as we don't know how to love nor how to achieve that goal Black on Black crime occurs more than any other criminal stat as it's about taught behavior and how to life we react we were enslaved, we were degraded, we were never shown how to love is it a wonder that as a people we have difficulty in rising above? we need to reorientate our thinking about those things that symbolize trouble and strife to look past society's stereotypical words that have affected our lives black ice, black cat, black magic, dark horse and of course black ball just because we are Black we don't have to perpetrate the self-hatred into which we're apt to fall we need to love to love ourselves and not look for validation in designer garbs we need to love to love ourselves and realize we're all images of God we don't need to measure our worth in terms of what society deems we're children of the Most High God and by the blood we've been redeemed it was a Black man named Simon who assisted Jesus with His cross to Calvary and a Black man named Barak Obama now holds the office of the USA Presidency we need to learn to love ourselves just for who and what we are just like the Lord God loved us from the very start so let go of the rage, let go of the hate and let go of that age old grudge forgive as Jesus forgave those who tormented Him and spilled His blood no longer to be angry, no longer to be mad and no longer to feel rejected moving forward in God's grace knowing that your're wanted, loved and respected learn to love yourself and then your love for God and your neighbor will come through learn to love yourself with a positive mindset and an outlook on life that's brand new