I actually write a new one, every year. I never re-use one. One thing I always try to do, is to to sharpen our understanding of love. I always feel very disappointed, if we think about love as a warm, fuzzy feeling. I really don't think that's what God has in mind at all.
Love has to have an edge.
It has to have a direction, a particularity about it. Or else we're just fooling ourselves. This year, I'd like to talk about two aspects of love. What came to me, as I tried to prepare for this morning, is that there is a graciousness to love, and there is also a grittiness about it. Graciousness, and grittiness.