Love One Another

Jesus said to his disciples, “I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world-- therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘Servants are not greater than their master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf. You also are to testify because you have been with me from the beginning.” John 15:17-27

Love One Another

She takes in foster children

the world had rejected often

to give food and a bit of hope

a respite from a broken world.

When seeing all children as family

we know the whole creation as relatives

we walk wtih tenderness and joy

we dance with tears and expectations.

Love is neither flowery nor simple

not a greeting card or a poem

but daily labor and forgiveness

praying always for the unseen healing.

We are commanded to love one another

the hardest commandment to keep

yet we can change the world with love

 making  all strangers into family.