Loading...Beloved in Christ,
If the Season after the Epiphany had one more Sunday this year, we would hear this collect:
O Lord, you have taught us that without love whatever we do is worth nothing; Send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts your greatest gift, which is love, the true bond of peace and of all virtue, without which whoever lives is accounted dead before you. Grant this for the sake of your only Son Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Wherever life is found, in us and the Church, it is because we are agents of divine love. All our cleverness, programming and planning only bears fruit that lasts when we are motivated by love. Our proclamation of the Good News and of God's reign in word and deed, our faithful stewardship of money and time and creativity, and our work to heal a broken world, are life-giving when faithfully lived and given out of love. I know this is a promise I need to recommit to daily, whether in the midst of struggles, or in times of calm or great joy.
As we seek to grow in our faith as individual disciples of Jesus, and as we carry out Christ's mission as His Body, the Church, may we fervently seek the Holy Spirit's greatest gift which is love.
A blessed Epiphanytide to us all!
With my love in Christ,
+Terry
