We are called to find those places–those communities, those relationships–that teach us to love better. Love is a practice, and a lifelong journey of learning.
Who or what teaches you to love better?
Love is Challenging
“Love is resistant
Love is defiant
It is not backing down
It is staying in the streets
Love is holding each other and ourselves accountable.
Love is challenging — because none of us is free until all of us are free.” -Jules Taylor, in “Love Looks Different”
How does love challenge you?
Bleeding Heart
“Someone called me a ‘bleeding heart liberal.’ It was not intended as a compliment. However, I will always consider it one of the biggest compliments of my life.” -Sara Sutherland Dean, from “My Heart Fights for Those Who Cannot Fight”
For whom does your heart bleed?
Love in a Time of Violence
As bombs fall on innocents, destroying hospitals and apartments, we, across the world from the destruction, are called to love. How do we keep on loving in the face of violence, war, unnecessary death? How does love call us to resist the powers that urge on the missiles and guns?
How does love call you to resist violence and war?
Circle of Love
“May we beckon Love and Justice and Mercy
with our own whispers
with our shouts
with our cries
Until all know themselves part of the Circle of Love.” -Joan Javier-Duval, from “Meditation for Challenging Times”
How do you beckon Love and Justice and Mercy?