"The good is here, in our daily lives, in our willingness to follow the call of our hearts and give ourselves away to others."
Fr. James Stephen Behrens, "Living Faith"
In today's Gospel John 15:13, Jesus says, "No one has greater love than this, to lay down ones life for ones friends." For many of us, that seems way beyond what we are called to do in our work-a-day lives. But Fr. Behrens brings it right down to where we are. It is how we give of ourselves to those in our everyday lives that counts. The people in our families, the coworkers, the clerk at the store we frequent, the barrista at our coffee stop. Each one of these people, who come in contact with us each day, are deserving of the love of Jesus we have to share. We think easily of laying down our lives for a family member, that may not be hard to wrap our heads around. But each of the people we will encounter today deserves to see Jesus in our eyes, in the way we treat them and in the manner of our being. This brings Jesus' commandment right into our own lives this day. "This I command you: love one another." (v. 17) Let's think of this with every person we meet today! Love, heidi
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