Piloting Faith: Here's what I know about love...

A Word for the Day...

"If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

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 or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

I've done countless weddings where the couple wanted me to read this scripture. I'm good with that because this scripture is wonderfully honest about what it takes to be in relationship. We live in an age ripe with division. We are wise to remember that wholeness comes through loving with deep compassion and genuine understanding. We will find our way together so long as we remember that love is the starting place.

- Rev. Cameron Trimble, author of Piloting Church: Helping Your Congregation Take Flight

Prayer for the Week

That you may have
the wisdom to know the story
to which God calls you,
the power to pursue it,
the courage to abide its mysteries,
and love in every step.

- from In the Sanctuary of Women, by Jan L. Richardson