Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when you need it.
01929 – Two Ways to Show Your Love
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01926 – There are Degrees of Death
We all die eventually; we have no choice in the matter. But there are degrees of death before the final physical one. If we are honest, we acknowledge that we are dying throughout our life, and this is what we learn if we are attentive: grace is found at the depths...
01921 – Love is the Destination
Love is the destination, the telos, the goal—but we learn that we never arrive. We drive in the direction of love, but our destination keeps receding beyond the horizon. Yet we dare not set our course for any other destination. from Introducing Christian Ethics
01898 – Putting Love into Action
Love cannot remain by itself--it has no meaning, Love has to be put into action and that action is service... All works of love are works of peace.
01897 – Moving Beyond Fear
God's love calls us to move beyond fear. We ask God for courage to abandon ourselves unreservedly, so that we might be molded by God's grace, even as we cannot see where that path may lead us.
01896 – Misguided American Christianity
American Christianity has become so misguided that saying, "Jesus loves immigrants and refugees" is interpreted as partisan rhetoric rather than divine truth.
01889 – How Should We Live in an Atomic Age?
[Written in 1948] How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land...
01885 – Journeying
And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was suffering: and I saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was love.
01882 – Under a Delusion
Under a Delusion If the world is sane, then Jesus is mad as a hatter and the Last Supper is the Mad Tea Party. The world says, "Mind your own business," and Jesus says, "There is no such thing as your own business." The world says, "Follow the wisest course and be a...
01878 – The Commandment to Love Covers All
Every truth, every deed, every teaching is reduced to nothing more than religious noise when it isn't placed under and clothed in the commandment to love.