Cutler Ridge United Methodist Church

The Holy Post - Feb 08 [PDF]

Dear Friends,

February is the month for cupid, cards and candy.  In elementary school I remember how important it was to get Valentine cards from other kids.  There was usually a very special person that I wanted to get a Valentine from.  Every year it was a different girl.  I can almost recount the history of my elementary education by the girl I hoped to get a Valentine from that year.  I say “almost” because there was the three-year “girls have cooties” gap in the middle.   Love was a feeling you get, like the measles or chicken pox.

I’ve learned that real love is much more than a feeling you get.  True love is something you decide to have for others.  That’s why Jesus can tell us to love God and our neighbor.

I wish we had a different word for the kind of love that Jesus shows us, the kind of love that we are capable of as human beings.  The love that God has for us is so powerful and so wonderful, that human words cannot communicate it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the French philosoper and Jesuit priest, got close to it when he said: Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man (sic) will have discovered fire.

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
Sam

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