Loving Thy Neighbor Isn’t Passive

because true faith walks, works, and won't stay quiet

Loving thy neighbor
is not a warm nod at the mailbox,
not a silent seat in Sunday’s back pew,
not a card in a crisis
followed by months of forgetting.

It is not passive.
It does not rest
while a brother bleeds
on the wrong side of the tracks
or a sister cries
in a courtroom built to crush her name.

True love—
the kind that changes corners and cities—
moves.
It rolls …