Bible

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.

Luke 10:27

Baldwin

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Thought

This year the Lenten season begins on Valentine’s Day, and this is very fitting because it is also a season of love. In addition to God and neighbour, there is also the love of self, which many often forget as they follow the greatest commandments. A healthy self-love is essential for physical and spiritual well-being, and during Lent it is encouraged through giving and taking up. We give up harmful things that hold us back, and we take up wholesome things that help us to thrive. As we seek to love God and neighbour through fasting and repentance these forty days, may we not forget to love ourselves.