Lenten Devotions in Hard Economic Times

THIRTY-EIGHTH DAY OF LENT 
      APRIL 1, Holy Thursday 
  
 John 13: 34 
 
 
I give you a new commandment,
that you love one another.
Just as I have loved you,
you should also love one another.
 
Love,
Not some poofy little Valentine’s Day confection, but
Love, the heavy duty, industrial strength,
Just-before-the-crucifixion variety,
Costly and crazy love,
Risky, rare, and relentless.
Outcasts and enemies,
Friends and cyphers,
Love one another.
Just as I have loved you…
 
With compassion and courage,
Ardor and accountability,
From glory to calamity,
Through the deadliness of daily-ness,
And the blessedness of serenity,
Love one another.
Just as I have loved you…
 
   
 

John cited from New Revised Standard Version
 commentary in italic