Imagine a little girl, about a year old, being passed around in a group of people. Her eyes begin to tear up, her lip quivers and she begins bawling! No one can calm her, so she is passed back to her mom. Immediately, the tears stop and everything is ok.
A little boy starts playing hockey and he is terrible! He cannot skate. He cannot shoot. He is always going the wrong way and he never seems to know what to do. Up in the stands, though, he sees his mom. She has a big smile on her face. She cheers for her little boy as if he is next Wayne Gretzky and he knows that she is proud of him.
A girl comes home crying. Grade five can be difficult. Some of the other girls were being mean and making fun of her. She feels like she does not have a friend in the world. Her mom sits her down and listens to her. She tells her little girl that she is the most beautiful, most wonderful and most loved little girl in the world. The girl wipes her tears and goes on knowing that, no matter what happens, her mom is on her side.
A teenager goes to university. It is his first time away from home. The campus is big and, though he is trying to hide it, he is a little scared. His mom helps him settle into his dorm room. She calls him every other day for the first couple of weeks. She sends him “care packages” filled with some of his favorite foods and a couple of new shirts. He counts the days until the weekend when he gets to go home.
This past weekend was “Mother’s Day”. We honour mothers not because they are perfect, but because they love! In fact, a mother’s love can make all the difference in a child’s life. It can change everything!
Now hold that thought and read this: “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us” (1 John 4:7-12).
God’s love can change everything for us. His love can fill us and can flow through us so that it changes the lives of those around us.
That is the power of Love!
A little boy starts playing hockey and he is terrible! He cannot skate. He cannot shoot. He is always going the wrong way and he never seems to know what to do. Up in the stands, though, he sees his mom. She has a big smile on her face. She cheers for her little boy as if he is next Wayne Gretzky and he knows that she is proud of him.
A girl comes home crying. Grade five can be difficult. Some of the other girls were being mean and making fun of her. She feels like she does not have a friend in the world. Her mom sits her down and listens to her. She tells her little girl that she is the most beautiful, most wonderful and most loved little girl in the world. The girl wipes her tears and goes on knowing that, no matter what happens, her mom is on her side.
A teenager goes to university. It is his first time away from home. The campus is big and, though he is trying to hide it, he is a little scared. His mom helps him settle into his dorm room. She calls him every other day for the first couple of weeks. She sends him “care packages” filled with some of his favorite foods and a couple of new shirts. He counts the days until the weekend when he gets to go home.
This past weekend was “Mother’s Day”. We honour mothers not because they are perfect, but because they love! In fact, a mother’s love can make all the difference in a child’s life. It can change everything!
Now hold that thought and read this: “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us” (1 John 4:7-12).
God’s love can change everything for us. His love can fill us and can flow through us so that it changes the lives of those around us.
That is the power of Love!
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