Love Your Neighbour. No discrimination.

 Honour your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbour as yourself.’” Mt 19:19 NIV

Love your neighbour as yourself.
In practice, this involves much more than acts of kindness by one person to another.

If you are a man, every man and every woman is your neighbour. 

If you love yourself with a healthy God given self-respect, you will recognise your gifts and talents and make the most of them to realise your potential.

If you love your neighbour as yourself, you will love women in the same way as you love men, and I am not talking about romantic or sexual love.

Just as you make the most of your own gifts and talents, you will seek to give everyone of both genders the maximum opportunity to realise their potential.

I love classical music. The most celebrated classical composers are all men, but there have been amazingly gifted female composers who have not been allowed to reach their full potential.
Felix Mendelssohn wrote the most popular wedding music of all time. 

He was one of the greats, but his sister Fanny was equally talented. Why could she not devote herself fully to becoming one of the celebrated great composers? Because she was a woman. She was expected to marry and devote herself to serving her husband.

My grandmother was an amazingly talented woman. Her father was an engineer and a university lecturer with a personal library of wonderful books. She learned to read at home and taught her sisters to read. 

She only attended school for one year, but she became an art teacher and a lecturer at a training college for kindergarten teachers. She was an excellent artist herself and she wrote a textbook for teaching art to small children. She also raised four sons. One became a farmer, another became a professor of law and my father became a psychiatrist.

How terrible it would have been if she had been forced into a traditional role as housewife with no outlets for her talents.