Inspired by lyrics to “Love Wins” by Jan Garrett and JD Martin:
“You might win a battle, you could win a race, out-run your rivals, come in first place.
Don’t lose your center in the push and the shove. Simply surrender and tune into love.
Love knows no boundaries, it’s the light in our eyes–familiar to all, universally prized.
There’s a world of compassion, and we’re good to begin. We could just quit fighting, and let Love win . . .
When we lose our resistance at last and we realize Love’s got our back, Love wins for everyone, great and small.
We are lifted as we fall. Kindness conquers all. Love wins. Love’s not a contest, it’s just who we are.
All is well in the end. Love wins.”
Responsive Reading for Sunday, February 9
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no evil to the neighbor; hence, love is the fulfillment of the law” (Romans 13:9-10).
You might win a battle, you could win a race,
out-run your rivals, come in first place.
Don’t lose your center in the push and the shove.
Simply surrender and tune into love.
“For it is love that I desire, not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than holocausts” (Hosea 6:6).
Love knows no boundaries, it’s the light in our eyes —
familiar to all, universally prized.
There’s a world of compassion, and we’re good to begin.
We could just quit fighting and let Love win.
“He brings me into the banquet hall and his emblem over me is love” (Song of Songs 2:4).
When we lose our resistance at last
and we realize Love’s got our back, Love wins
for everyone, great and small.
We are lifted as we fall.
Kindness conquers all. Love wins
“So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love” (I. Corinthians 13:13).
Love’s not a contest, it’s just who we are.
All is well in the end. Love wins.