First Love

We, though, are going to love - love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first.
~1 John 4:19 (msg)

Acknowledging this precious “first love of God,” redefines all of our capabilities of loving and shows how that same first love was intended to be fruitful and extend beyond ourselves to others.

Joan Chittister writes:
“The people who love us do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. They release the best in us; they shoulder us through the rough times in life; they stretch us beyond the confines of our own experiences to wider visions, to truer vistas. They show us the face of our creating, caring God on earth.”