Feb 22 Daily Devotional

Cultivate different facets of love each day this month.February 22: Transformational Love

• Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:17 – So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being!
• Reflection: Humans are constantly changing and growing as spiritual beings. From the day we are born until the day we die, we learn. We explore. We become more and different.
  Consider how love has the power to change us and those around us, making all things new. How do you change others? How are you transformed by those you love?
• Spiritual Practice Prompt: What is one way that someone you love has caused you to change in recent times? How has it been hard? What is the grace or goodness that has come from it?
• Song: “Love Can Change Everything” by Michael Ball

I would have each couple turn,
join and unjoin, be lost
in the greater turning
of other couples, woven
in the circle of a dance,
the song of long time flowing

over them, so they may return,
turn again in to themselves
out of desire greater than their own,
belonging to all, to each,
to the dance, and to the song
that moves them through the night.

What is fidelity? To what
does it hold? The point
of departure, or the turning road
that is departure and absence
and the way home? What we are
and what we were once

are far estranged. For those
who would not change, time
is infidelity. But we are married
until death, and are betrothed
to change. By silence, so,
I learn my song. I earn

my sunny fields by absence, once
and to come. And I love you
as I love the dance that brings you
out of the multitude
in which you come and go.
Love changes, and in change is true.