God created this world out of a heart full of love. God created human beings in that same love. God created you and me, loved us into our own birth, loved us along the way of our individual journeys, loves us now. God wants us to live every day of this life we have been given, fully, deeply, passionately, joyfully, gratefully. And God sent his Son to teach us that the way to do that is to love, particularly the least of these, my family.

So do it. Don’t hold back. Don’t save your love for another time, another place. Give it now. Give your life and your love, which God, I am convinced, mixes up on my iPhone to remind me every day that live and love are, in God’s eyes, in Jesus’ words, the same thing.

John M. Buchanan

November 13, 2011

Full Sermon

https://fourthchurch.org/sermons/2011/111311.html