February 2025
Love is patient and Kind. Love is a many splendid thing. Can’t buy me love. Love is all around us.
Films, songs, books, paintings, photographs, and scripture are filled with stories and words of love.
This last week we have been thinking about REAL LOVE and what it would mean to show love for one another as Jesus commanded us to.
The story of St Valentine is one of courage and bravery – standing up for his faith and his devotion to the people he cared for in the 3rd century when he lived. He wrote letters of encouragement and signed them ‘From your Valentine’. My question though is do we really know what real love is like and how can we show it in our thoughts, words and actions.
Paul says that Love is patient and kind, it is not rude, it isn’t jealous and rejoices in the truth. Love goes on. There is faith and hope and love, and the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13)
What would our schools and homes and cities be like if everyone showed these things in the life?
There would be more peace, and everyone would be more at peace too.
Lord God, you gave your only son to show your love for the world.
Help us to be courageous in showing love for each other.
Help us to be more patient and kind and to think of others as people loved by God.
Help us to make a fresh start everyday so that we might make the world a better place.
Amen