Implications

There is a very tragic case in the news at the moment here in England:

A two-year-old girl wandered off from a nursery. After a few hours of searching for her, the nursery staff couldn't find her and so contacted her parents who immediatly joined in the search.

The little girl's mother recognised her daughter shoe floating in a backgarden pond and jumped in to get it.
But when she grabbed it she felt the toddler's leg and realised what had happened....the girl had drowned.

A terrible tragedy. But then as if this story isn't horrific enough, a few hours before the little girl's body was found, a van driver said he passed her toddling down a country lane by herself....but he didn't stop to pick her up because he was worried he might get accused of attempting to abduct her if he dropped her off at a police station.

The outcome of this tragedy could have been so different if only he had stopped and picked her up.

For me, this incident shows the importance of love in God's plans and it has reinforced the importance of loving your neighbour and the cosmic implications this can, and in many many cases does, have.

True charitable love puts the needs and the overall good of others before oneself, regardless of the perceived implications for your own well-being.
Look at Mary's unselfish 'Yes' to God; through her loving submission and denial of self, despite the potential problems, Our Saviour entered the world!

We should never stop ourselves from acting out of true compassinate love for another because of fear for ourselves of what the consequences might be. Before we do anything we should always consider whether the choice has been made out of love for God and out of a desire for the true good of our neighbour, or whether we are letting fear and darkness control our hearts.
Not acting because of fear, is not trusting in God's Providence.

Love shown to another, is love shown to Him, and He controls all things.