right to be right

I don't know what it is about us but we like to put 'them' into boxes.  So far there are quite a few boxes to separate and segregate just with a casual wandering through my fb news-feed and twitter account. These are boxes by the way that we give each other in the fold called the family of God; conservative, progressive, evangelical, fundamentalist, pentecostal, orthodox in every flavor, liberal, right-wing, left-wing, emerging- emergent- emerged...I don't know. This of course isn't including the myriad of denominations, creeds and ism's of particular issues whether it be gender issues, roles in the church and family, what is sin, poverty, compassion, missions, modesty, parenting, marriage, persecutions of and by. We collectively hate them and love others.  What is a family, a relationship and when should we be mad at or offended by a corporation, country or collective thought that is popular at the snapchat moment.

We have various numbers of steps to repair, fix, overcome, rethink get right all of the above: 7 , 8, 13, 21, 56 steps to everything.  There are articles I read that I won't go to the comment section because inevitable there is a yahoo who thinks swearing and ALL CAPPING will change everyone's opinion just because he/she swore and ALL CAPPED.

We are so earnest, so desiring for the other to come over to our side of the issue. We are so sure we are so right about so many many things. If only 'they' could see how stupid, lost, angry, un-educated, miss-informed, self centered, liberal, conservative, immature, young, old, traditional, progressive 'they' are...if only.

Where is love? How are we at that? 1 John is pestering me because I am not good at love...the love each other commandment ... We have to love each other...if we don't we cannot call ourselves children of God no matter how right we think we are about anything.
Love trumps everything...the right to be right, more right, better right, theologically right, fundamentally right, biblically right, denominationally right, politically right, educationally right, materially right, racially right, culturally right, historically right, constitutionally right.
Trust me, after writing right so many times...it has lost its meaning.
Love doesn't.