Missing the point

We spend so much time trying to make our lives better, to be better, to build things up, to be settled, to feel fulfilled.  But all God asks is that, on this day, we love.  We may die tomorrow, our friends may die tomorrow, so He asks us merely to love.  We feel so stressed, so tired, so degraded, so heavy, because we are full of all the other stuff.  It seems so hard just to love, when you are so focused on all the rest of that.  But it's so easy, it's the easiest thing of all, when you remember that it's the only thing that's really important.  So, let us try to let go of all the rest.