the world and all that dwell in it! Psalm 98:7
John 15:9-17
9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11 I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. 12 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.
14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.
16 You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. 17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
The Sixth Sunday of Easter
I really really really like my blog on this scripture from three years ago when Covid felt more threatening and we still were being extra careful to consider our neighbors. I couldn't do as well today; please check it out for:
• A poem by Jeff Shrowder
• Observations about client-patron expectations vs the intimacy of friendship
• Love etymology with some C.S. Lewis
• Obedience, freedom, and community
• A quote about freedom from MLK
• Reflections on the overall Covid-pandemic situation
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