HAPPY VALENTINES DAY 2026

 It may be a simple instruction to the Church but it is one of the greatest challenges with which any of us can be presented. It is the Holy Spirit of God Who calls us to live as Christ lived and to love as Christ loved. Such divine love is an impossibility in our own limited, human strength. It is only as the Holy Spirit is given a way to carry out His work within, that this impossible command can be carried out.
 It is as we abide in Christ and He in us, that we begin to learn the lesson of love - godly love - sacrificial love. It is as we die to self in all things and live for Christ alone that we begin to be formed into the image of Christ. It is as we permit the Holy Spirit to carry out His good work in and through our lives, that we can become a channel through whom His love can flow out to others.
 Every action and every attitude, every word and every work, each thought of the heart, each decision of the mind and even the motives that influence the choices we make, need to be bathed in the purifying gaze of the Holy Spirit, washed in the fountain of God's divine love and covered with the unconditional grace of Christ Who for love of His Church went to the cross willingly so that like Him, everything we do may be done through HIM - in LOVE.
1 Corinthians 16:14 Let all that you do be done with love.

Our United Prayer:
Loving Father, we confess that in our own strength, it is impossible for us to carry out all that we say and do in love, but we know that it is possible in the strength and power of the Spirit of love. You have promised to pour Your love through us to others, so that we may love others as Christ loved us. Use us to be vessels of love in the lives of all we meet today, knowing that it is Christ that loves through us and not ourselves. In Jesus’ name we Pray, AMEN.