deeply-from-the-heart love

I Peter 1:22.  “Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the heart.”

i’m not sure I’ve ever really noticed this verse before… but i’m struck by it today.  if the purification of our souls is helped by our obedience to the truth… and if this purification which is helped by our obedience produces genuine love for each other … i’m concerned about the state of the Church — and even more concerned about the state of my own heart — cuz i don’t know that i’m experiencing that much “deeply-from-the-heart love.”

oh, Lord. have mercy on us.

After giving myself antlers,

making funny air noises with my mouth and experimenting with a variety of other facial expressions, I've realized something.  I will do many crazy things to get a belly-laugh from the little lady I babysit.  I wonder how many other feats I should be doing crazy things to achieve...