Did You Love Enough?

"Did you love enough?"  If your answer is "yes", you will enter heaven, or so thinks author Paulo Coelho.  I like his philosophy.  Four simple words, nothing more or nothing less. In the present tense, "Do you love enough?" can become a guiding daily question we can ask ourselves.

Love is patient, love is kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 

Did you love enough today? Have you done something kind for someone else? In the face of overwhelming, insurmountable and sometimes paralyzing societal problems, often fueled by hate or fear, it seems one thing we can do is ask ourselves that simple question every day.  And every morning we can make a plan so that at the end of the day the answer will be "yes".        

In your call to love and serve, help us respond. May we extend our hearts with love and our hands and feet to serve. Amen