Hey how are you? Do we really care?

How many times have you gone to any location, be it church, school, work etc... and when you walk in the first thing someone says to you is "Hey how you doing" How do you respond back to them when they ask you. Or better yet, what is your non verbal response. Quite often in today's society the greeting of asking how someone is going is more of a simple formality instead of a genuine question, wouldn't you agree?

What I mean by that is when you ask "how are you doing to someone" are you actually giving your unconscious effort to make it show that you really care how they are doing, or are you saying it in passing as you head to your seat/class/office. The reason for asking how someone is doing is to actually know how they are doing, not to just use that as your communication for the week. Say a friend asks you how another friend is doing because friend number one has not had a chance to talk with friend 2 but you have, however all you did was say hey, how are you doing" in passing. You didn't actually wait for a response and therefore you cannot give a true answer yet you probably will tell them, "oh there doing fine" am I right?

I think one of the major problems with today's society is that we have been trained to ask a question to show care without actually showing much care at all. It is something that needs to be changed, the world is always moving at the same speed even though society tries to speed it up even quicker. I say lets slow the world down. Spend time getting back into a meaningful relationship with others, show actual care for how people are doing. We were created to crave relationships for a reason so why do we run away from it so much?

How do we show love to each other in our greetings?  Are we showing Love at all?  What exactly is Love?  Is it an idea?  An emotion?  An actual tangible thing?  I asked some of my youth kids yesterday to define Love for me and after some struggling with it they came up with "Love is God" O.K.  Yeah that’s true, but doesn't it still seem like a kind of Sunday school answer?  What is God then??????

If Love is God (yes) Then Love (God) is the Key that unlocks our souls.

Does love always win in our life?  Contrary to the popular car window stickers out there, unfortunately I don't think it always does.  I mean how many times are there you could have shown love to someone in your life (or even someone in passing) and you didn't.

I still think you have to choose Love, it doesn't just win automatically. 

But, it is the answer.

Want to show love?  You can start, by having a true greeting to one another.