All about Love

Ah—it’s a slow month. February is cold, the New Year glitz has worn off, Spring hasn’t sprung, and some people are at their peak of SADD.

February is underappreciated. (I know, I know, it’s cold, the New Year glitz has worn off, and Spring hasn’t sprung.) But, what about Love? February 14 is Valentine’s Day.  February 7 is the Super Bowl—apparently people love appetizers and aged quarterbacks, in tandem. Last and BEST, February is Black History Month                                                                                       

As I learn more about the pain that people have experienced, right here in our own country, particularly pain due to injustice, I find myself longing for a return to love, to understanding, which requires truth. We know that there is a “…still more excellent way” for us all—but we haven’t gotten there, yet. I’m not sure we are listening so we can learn how to get there.  My conclusion—I need to listen more, so I can learn more and consider how I might love more. Paul wrote famously in the “Love Chapter”,         I Corinthians 13, describing what love is and what it isn’t. If we listen more, maybe we would sound less like noisy gongs or clanging symbols. If we learn more, maybe, faith, hope and love might abide—not just for me, or for you, but for EVERY one. If faith, hope and love abide in us, then surely all lives will matter to us. And here is the truth—we haven’t gotten there. Until black lives matter (too), all lives can’t matter.

I love this quote: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

If it really is all about love, let’s listen and learn, so we can love.

With you in Christ,

Susan

Thank you!