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January 29, 2016

Kara Lassen Oliver   |   Read 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, 13

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1 Corinthians 13:1-3, 13

1 If I speak in tongues of human beings and of angels but I don’t have love, I’m a clanging gong or a clashing cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and I know all the mysteries and everything else, and if I have such complete faith that I can move mountains but I don’t have love, I’m nothing. 3 If I give away everything that I have and hand over my own body to feel good about what I’ve done but I don’t have love, I receive no benefit whatsoever. 13 Now faith, hope, and love remain—these three things—and the greatest of these is love.

Unless otherwise indicated, scripture quotations are from the Common English Bible. Copyright © 2011 Common English Bible. Used by permission.

I preached the word of God but did not know God’s love for myself. I protested injustice as a demonstration of love but not in response to my own belovedness. I have taught and witnessed God’s love revealed to others while covering my eyes to the revelation myself. I have...

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God of love, come to us in the quiet moments, in the stillness, the nonactivity. Help us feel your deep, abiding love as pure as a parent for a child at the moment of birth—hope and joy and miraculous. Beloved. Amen.


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