A Disease Called Jealousy

Jealousy.
Envy.
That slow trickle of hate in the dead of night.
The weight of the green monster on your back, eating away frantically at feeble sanity.

The tattered garments of a diseased soul, based in the roots established at the dawn of human civilization. The word spoken from the divine to his people "I the LORD thy God am a jealous God." There is a disease called jealousy and even in the Bible it is mentioned before love, oh priorities that can’t be healthy.

It is a natural human state to desire what others want, to covet what others have. Be it money, material blessings, or relationships. That is the thing to understand, jealousy and love cannot co-exist. Jealousy gives way to hate, contempt, sorrow, fear, in obsessive proportion. Jealousy leaves no room for other emotions.

Jealousy is in a sense, a sickness of the mind and soul. Like most illness, it can be cured, or at least addressed, the question most would ask, is how.

There is a Greek word, Agape which has casually been tossed around in the Christian Community to describe love, usually at a slanted angle to better promote the message in a sermon. The word means love, though its connotation is what should draw attention. When used Agape came to mean an unconditional love, a love given freely without expectation of return or even notice. A tragedy of sorts, but one that brings peace to the fevered and troubled mind.

Or in simple terms, the Hindu's got this one right, ponder it.
"Where there is love, there is my grace."
-Lord Krishna

Totally no mention of jealousy.