The Prayer Chest – 2/17/21
We Must Discover the Power of Love
Soul Matters Theme for February
My job is to plant seeds of love, and to keep on planting, even-or especially—when the bad weather comes. It’s folly to think I can know the grand plan, how my small action fits into the larger whole. All I can do is check, myself, again and again:
Do my actions look like love?
Bishop Michael Curry
Love Is the Way – Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times; 2020
We Must Discover the Power of Love
That’s what love is. Love is not selfish and self-centered. Love can be sacrificial, and in so doing, becomes redemptive. And that way of unselfish, sacrificial, redemptive love changes lives, and it can change this world.
If you don’t believe me, just stop and imagine.
Think and imagine a world where love is the way.
Imagine our homes and families where love is the way.
Imagine neighborhoods and communities where love is the way.
Imagine governments and nations where love is the way.
Imagine business and commerce where this love is the way.
Imagine this tired old world where love is the way.
When love is the way – unselfish, sacrificial, redemptive.
When love is the way, then no child will go to bed hungry in this world ever again.
When love is the way, we will let justice roll down like a mighty stream and righteousness like an ever-flowing brook.
When love is the way, poverty will become history.
When love is the way, the earth will be a sanctuary.
When love is the way, we will lay down our swords and shields, down by the riverside, to study war no more.
When love is the way, there’s plenty good room – plenty good room – for all of God’s children.
Because when love is the way, we actually treat each other, well… like we are actually family.
— Bishop Michael Curry
Address at Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
Bishop Michael Curry is the presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church. Elected in 2015, he is the first African-American to lead the denomination. A noted advocate for human rights and author of several books, Bishop Curry is also an acclaimed preacher.