Tag: love

Discover a heartfelt poem about love, depression and finding truth. Dive into the depths of this introspective piece by Christi Ortiz.

It’s that time of year — the “love” holiday is just around the corner — Valentine’s Day. I’ve never been a fan of this made-up excuse to entice (pressure?) people (mostly men) to spend silly amounts of money on silly things to prove just how loved their partner is. There are saccharine words and images on cards, pounds of candy, overpriced, crowded and understaffed restaurants selling a night of romance and ostentatious displays of flowers, worst of all, delivered to the partner’s place of work.

My memory is fresh about the second Sunday of Advent, 1969. A young pastor, I was serving my first solo church appointment. Our congregation had decorated the sanctuary for Advent and Christmas, including a Christmas tree standing between the pulpit and the first row of pews.

Things are going as planned until the blow of a diagnosis one day. Is uncertainty the only certainty?

Jesus calls us to love one another. How are you doing with that?

We all want and deserve love. Finding it, keeping it and giving it is hard, though. Love is labyrinthine.

It is said that we are designed to be in relationship with one another by participating in the arena of communal love.