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Ephesians 1:15-16
I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love towards all the saints, and for this reason I
do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers.
The color of love
What is the color of love? Every first grader knows it is
red, and it is shaped like a heart. But I think it includes every shade and hue
we can imagine, every joy and sorrow.
We should color-code the notes on the prayer wall of our
sanctuary. People stop there to write a prayer and stick it up on the wall.
There are always fewer prayer notes than I’d like to see. I
want us to coat the wall with a great wash of color, the color of love that
blends every human need and emotion.
We could use red stick-up notes for the loves that make us
truly glad. Blue notes could speak our deep hopes and unfulfilled yearning, white
ones the joy of being alive and feeling free. Green or gold could lift our
prayers for healing, and scarlet the sorrows that won’t heal.
Run all the colors together, each one overlapping and
crowding out others and you have the confusing, contradictory, mixed-up mess that is human life.
You also have one great visual prayer of thanks for being
joined in a community of love and faith where every hue and color, every
emotion and experience finds a welcome--and the love that Christ is becomes much
more than words on paper.
Help us, blessed Christ, to be a community of love where you are known and
hearts find healing.
Pr. David L. Miller
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