FULL TRANSCRIPT: It’s the night of the nor’easter, the first significant snow of December, 2020. And just before I record, I open my phone and find five very different messages from five very different people with one very common theme—loss and pain.
Paul speaks to loss and pain directly and indirectly in the thirteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians, the love chapter. What I find significant tonight about the love chapter is how he sets it up in 1 Corinthians 12:31b. He writes, “But let me show you the way of life that is best of all.”
The way of life that is best of all is the life that lets love actually be love. When we let love have its own space, its own spirit, its own voice, its own place, its own personality, then we let love do what God wants it to do, what God wants us to let Him do, which is let love direct, guide, inspire, teach, infuse, and lift.
I can speak to love differently this year having been single for decades and now having almost 365 days of living with little people ages two to seven. This family that is now us was birthed in loss and pain, each of us, and we bump into each sometimes. And it’s really hard sometimes. Yet, when we let love do what love does, ha, there is a joy and a direction and a resiliency that is overpowering, perfect.
We will speak to love this coming Sunday as we light the love candle. Until then, and beyond that lighting, let love speak to you and let love speak through you.