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. You could lose your center in the push and the shove, or simply surrender and tune into love.
Love’s not a contest, it’s just who we are. Both the light and the shadow are at home in the heart. Beyond the struggle, there is music to play, and songs to be singing at the end of the day….
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’re up against too much to ask, 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.
Responsive Reading for February 13
“Let your eyes look straight ahead and your glance be direct forward. Survey the path for your feet, and let all our ways be sure” (Proverbs 4:25-6).
I don’t lose my center in the push and the shove. I simply surrender and tune into love.
“Do you know that the runners in the stadium all run in the race, but only one wins the prize? Run as to win. Every athlete exercises discipline in every way. They do it to win a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one” (I Corinthians 9:24-5).
Love knows no boundaries. It’s the light in our eyes – familiar to all, universally prized.
“I can do all things through him who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13). “But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded” (II Chronicles 15:7).
We can just quit fighting and let love win. When we’re up against too much to ask, when we lose our resistance at last and we realize love’s got our back, love wins.
“I have competed well. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith” (II Timothy 4:7).
In the game of life, for everyone, great and small, we are lifted as we fall. Kindness conquers all. Love wins!