I volunteered to lead the study of First John chapter four for tomorrow morning’s Bible class. We take turns in our class and I get it maybe once every two months. I don’t mind doing it although sometimes it is more of a challenge than others. Sometimes that is because of me and sometimes it is the material.

Usually I enlist the help in a couple of different areas. One is that reading an introduction to the whole book gives context to the chapter. And another is employing a commentary to help with understanding meaning and by seeing how it fits with other happenings and ideas in other places in the Bible.

I got interested in this particular chapter because the Rev Bonnie Barnard was talking about it when I heard her several weeks ago. It was good then and maybe I could learn more. That is one thing about giving a lesson is that you always learn more by doing it. That’s the payoff for the work.

This chapter is all about love. In short it’s first about God’s love for us and how we love Him back. We need to realize that the only way to love Him back is to love each other. Well sounds good but how does that work?

Face Book to the rescue. I’m friends with Pope Francis and I get his messages. And today’s message was about how love is work. How most of the time love equals work. I can verify that right here in our house with my daughter visiting and how much work she puts in caring for her twenty month old daughter, our granddaughter. It’s endlessly demanding. I am watching it at this very moment. I can tell you that in this case anyway that love is definitely work!

Off I go to our 9 o’clock walk and then archery. We have a chance of rain in the forecast. Well, we’ll see.

working loves, Felipé.