Lenten Meditation: We Come in Love
We Come in Love
We do not come to put anybody down. We come to lift everybody up
We come in love. We come in love because we follow Jesus and Jesus taught us love.
Love the Lord your God and Love your neighbor.
Love your liberal neighbor.
Love your conservative neighbor. Love your Democratic neighbor.
Love your Republican neighbor.
Love your Independent neighbor.
Love your neighbor whom you don’t like.
Love your neighbor who you disagree with.
Love your Christian neighbor. Love your Muslim neighbor.
Love your Jewish neighbor. Love your Palestinian neighbor.
Love your Israeli neighbor.
Love your refugee neighbor. Love your immigrant neighbor. Love the prison guard neighbor.
Love your neighbor.
We come in love.
I would submit that the teaching of Jesus to love God and love our neighbor is at the core and the heart of what it means to be a follower of Jesus.
Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
Bishop Michael Curry