Daily DevotionalCultivate love and compassion each day this week.
- Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 –– Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- Reflection: These specific characteristics of love challenge us to reflect on our thoughts and actions when interacting with others. Of all of these characteristics, which ones do we do well? Which ones are growing areas that could use some work?
- Spiritual Discipline: Choose one characteristic from this passage to focus on throughout the week (e.g., patience, kindness).
- Love Never Ends by The Corner Room: https://youtu.be/I0YJEUkKAUc?si=CsOF6D1zT2mb72lW
Be Thou my Valentine — Maren Tirabassi
Be Thou my Valentine, fill me with love.
Help me to reach out
with bare hand not glove
to each of your children – the far and the near –
the ones filled with laughter,
and the ones bright with tears.
Thank you for moments of gentle romance.
Thank you for passion
that makes our hearts dance.
Thank you for giving spouse, partner and friend,
your promise in grieving
that the love never ends.
Praise to the God of brash Solomon’s Song,
Shepherd of those
who don’t think they belong,
Ring of sweet joy around all who engage,
and Guide in divorces
for those turning the page.
Be Thou my Valentine, teach me to tell
all of your children
who sit by dry wells —
your Water is Living, you are the true Vine,
and, when there’s a party –
You’re the One with the wine!