Holy Spirit of Jesus, help your love be mine, patient and kind…

 
1 Corinthians 13: 4-13 & John 21:15 – 19

 
“Do you love me?  Do you love me? Do you LOVE me?”, Jesus asked Peter three times, as He asks each one of us day by day. For St. Peter, the cost of loving Jesus was that he would be sent across Eurasia to proclaim the Good News of God’s Grace.  He would be listened to and stoned, heal people in Jesus’ Name and perform other miracles by God’s Grace – and would eventually be bound and led to a cross for crucifixion like his Master.  Loving Jesus is not signing up for a life of leisure in a bed of roses.  Loving Jesus means that I navigate the path of life that Father God has designed for me as Jesus did, dealing with all the wonder-full and ‘interesting’ and sometimes overwhelming circumstances along the way with the same patience and kindness Jesus used as he lived into his love-life in this world. Even during his tortuous trial, Jesus did not lose his patience with his Father’s will.  Even to those who attacked an tortured him, Jesus was not unkind.  Do I truly LOVE Jesus? Will I love like Jesus? Holy Spirit of Jesus, help your love be mine.
 
O sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things.(Psalm 98:1:)  
 
You need not cry very loud: He is nearer to us than we think.
Brother Lawrence, Practicing the Presence of God
 
Listen to You Are Mine  By David Haas
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Soli ad gloriam Dei
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