You shall love

    the LORD your God

with all your heart

and with all your soul,

and with all your mind.

This is the great

      and first commandment.

And the second is like it:

You shall love your neighbor

                as yourself.

               Matthew 22. 37-39

(These verses show us

not how to earn God's love

but how to abide in it.

The first commandment

    from Deuteronomy 6.5

impacts all that we do

    and how we live.

Faithful Jews repeated it

    twice daily

    to stay on track

        in following God.

But Jesus takes love

            to new level.

Responding to the first

empowers us to

naturally complete the next:

   to love others just as

   we are loved by God.)

O LORD,

Reveal to us today

all the ways we can

       show our love for You

in what we do,

in our attitudes,

in what we think,

how we respond to others,

and how we can love them

        in tangible

        and unexpected ways.

Remind us of Your Word

and of Your love today

in all things great and small

      You place before us

that we may honor You.