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Unity Church of Christianity
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February 2008
A Higher Love
About 20 years ago, Steve Winwood co-wrote and sang a popular song titled, "Higher Love." The first verse is:"Think about it, there must be a higher loveAnd the refrain:
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is a wasted time
Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine…""Bring me a higher loveThe yearning in that song is a yearning we all feel, isn't it? It's the yearning for us to rise up in our consciousness, to get beyond the low place of small- mindedness, superficial judgments, criticism, envy, and the "need" to have everything just the way we want it. Let's face it, there's not much joy in that low place. There's not much love.
Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
I could rise above on a higher love."
Jesus, our master teacher, taught us to rise up in consciousness, to find that higher love. "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another." (John 13:34)
Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 8:1, "Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up." And again in 1 Corinthians 13:1 and 4-6, "If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal… Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth."
Can we love as Jesus did? Can we "build up" instead of "puffing up," as Paul admonished? Can we love one another with the love that Spirit has for us? Can we bring that love into full expression in our daily lives and in our spiritual community?
As we enter into this time of discernment and seek to know God's guidance for Unity Church of Christianity, let's look for that higher love. "Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine." We'll "rise above on a higher love."
April Kain-Breese, Spiritual Leader
minister@unityofappleton.org
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