Monday, February 14, 2022
Love
Colours
Our Worlds
Golden and Good!
Psalm 108:2
Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn.
Colossians 1:11-12
May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.
Words of Grace For Today
Valentine’s Day.
The day we celebrate love,
Sharing special times with our beloved.
…
And praying for those who use love as a cover for greed, avarice, and predatorily making their way through life, no matter the cost to others.
Love.
Love is a tremendous things.
Love is a terribly powerful thing that can defeat death and grief and hopelessness or
Love is a terribly powerful thing that abused can defeat life itself and all that is good in it.
The thing to note is that though a person who used love as a weapon against others certainly destroys many, many other lives, but first … first that person destroys their own life and everything that makes life worthwhile, which leaves them swinging at whatever they can hit to try to establish that they exist at all … which destroys even more of life in and around them.
Love, though embraced with awe and gentleness gives life to oneself and one’s beloved and so to all who witness this love, not least of all to the children who absorb into their lives that love is possible and life is good, and gratitude rather than greed is the key to life’s success and indeed to it is the key to life itself.
Today we celebrate Valentine’s Day.
Today we celebrate love,
Sharing special times with our beloved,
As God has shared all of life with us.