4/21/11 That's what today is .....Maundy Thursday. Maundy comes from the same Latin root as commandment. The church calls today Maundy Thursday because we read on this day in John's Gospel the 13th chapter that Jesus gives us a new commandment, that we love one another as he has loved us.
So it all comes down to love. Not to keeping all of the rules, not to looking good on paper, but to love. It goes way beyond keeping the rules to building relationships. It goes way beyond getting a good report card to showing kindness, mercy, and forgiveness and to serving others, especially the least, the last, and the lost.
I have enough trouble showing love to people I like much less enemies or strangers. This Maundy Thursday I am driven to confession by Jesus' love command.
Love,
Lynn
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