"Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep. O Lord, you preserve both man and beast. How priceless is your unfailing love!"
     Psalm 36:5-7a

Love Never Fails

When divine masters came to teach us, they all said, without exception, love never fails. Just look at this list which paraphrases from various organized religions:

Christian
God is love. You are God's and children of the most high.
 
Shinto
Love is the receptacle of the Lord.
 
Zoroastrian
Man is the beloved of the Lord and you should love Him in return.
 
Judaic
Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and thy neighbor as thyself.
 
Sikh
God will regenerate those in whose hands there is love.
 
Buddha
Let a man cultivate toward the whole world a heart of love.
 
Tao
Heaven arms with love those it would not see destroyed.
 
Islam
Love is this, that thou shouldst account thyself very little and God very great.
 
Baha'i
If you lovest me not, my love can no wise reach thee.
 
Confucian
To love all men is the greatest benevolence.
 
Hindu
One can best worship the lord though love.

Dear heavenly Father, teach me how to love and how to share it with others. Amen.

Contributed by Michael S.
Published Monday December 15, 2003
Week 3 of Liturgical Year C