A funny thing happened when I went to write this message. I entered today's date (2/14/11) in the search engine on the ELCA's Daily Lectionary page. The ELCA's Daily Lectionary doesn't follow lots of other calendars you may know about... it's linked to the Sunday passages to follow up on the previous Sunday and get us ready for the next Sunday. Anyway, I typed in today's date and the passage it spit back at me was the Ten Commandments.
I laughed out loud. It's Valentine's Day, and we get the Ten Commandments. Really? So what should I write: the Ten Commandments for Valentine's Day? The Eleventh Commandment for husbands? The Eleventh Commandment for valentines?
So I'm just going to say this: Remember today that love is a gift from God and a sign of God's love for us. Whether the love you experience is of the romantic kind or the friendship kind or the parental/child kind. No matter what form your love takes, no matter how awesome you think it is, it's just a sign of God's love. It's just a foretaste of God's love.
God's love is greater than any human love. And it comes with chocolates (or so I've been told!)
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
Worship with us Sunday morning at 8:30 and 11.
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