Who is the most beloved person in your life? Is it your spouse, or a wonderful father, mother, friend, or mentor? This someone means the world to you. Now imagine that some townfolk bought a billboard on the main street in your town, placed a picture of this person on it, and then wrote the most shameful and hurtful comments about them for all the town to see. The whole town rose up with opinions about the sign. Some said it was ok because they knew of your beloved’s kindness and they would love the ones who put up the sign. Others said it was wrong because it was mean and false. Eventually, as with all things, the whole mess was forgotten. The billboard eventually faded and peeled away. But the pain of having your most beloved shamed for all the town to see remained. You told your beloved you were sorry for the hurtful way the town had treated them. They remained your beloved for you knew something the town folk didn’t; your beloved had saved your life years before showing you how to live in the new life they had given you. They were not the person on the billboard nor were the statements on the billboard true. They were the person who had saved you from being one of the town folk who used to put up billboards just like that. You and your Beloved went on with life. You knowing your Beloved keeps a record of everything everyone has ever done and will require an accounting of each of us…one day.
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