Prayer

In the Gospel last Sunday – 

Jesus teaches the disciples about the importance of love. 

We are the only world religion to believe that 

our God took our form and died out of 

love for us so that we might understand the love God has for us, 

and the love we are called to have for each other. 

It’s not about a fleeting feeling or having a warm fuzzy inside. 

Jesus tells us that the character of Christian love 

is the degree to which it’s sacrificial. 

This is a challenging way of working out who we really love, isn’t it? 

The people we love are those for whom we are prepared to sacrifice something 

of ourselves, maybe everything. 

No one promised us that the Christian life would be easy. 

All we have is our brother Jesus and 

all our friends, our family in faith,

 to support us in every loving sacrifice we make.

Amen.