2008 Woodie Awards
Letter from the Editor
Autumn Jones
Issue date: 2/1/08 Section: Letter From the Editor
What's love got to do with it? What a great way to start a discussion of practically anything this day and age. How does love play a part in our lives? More so, how does love guide our lives beyond love in the secular sense of the word? Do we extend a loving hand to all, or just to those it comes easy to love? How does God's unconditional love impact the way we live out our day-to-day experiences and encounters with others? How about when loving is difficult, even painful? Do we still make an effort with God's guidance to love with all our hearts, despite what may come of such love? What is meant by pure love, holy love, all encompassing, unconditional love?
All of these questions are wonderful ideas to consider as we enter into the month of February, a month overridden with pink, red, roses, hearts, and lace in the secular world. How can we take the love that so heavily enters our culture on one particular day in February and apply that same sense of love, yet at a deeper, more committed level all the days of our lives? Why express our love for those important in our lives on just one day? Why not every single day? Isn't it just as important to show those we love that we love them today? Why wait?
One of my favorite passages from the Bible is one often heard at weddings. It is one that, in a couple sentences, seems to encompass the most complete explanation of all that love is, both in our relationships with others and in our relationship with Christ. I leave this passage with all of you as we embark on a month dedicated to love in the material world, in hope that we may express this love to one another every day of our lives. God bless you.
"Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails."
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
In Christ's Peace and with Love,
Autumn Jones
Editor-In-Chief
All of these questions are wonderful ideas to consider as we enter into the month of February, a month overridden with pink, red, roses, hearts, and lace in the secular world. How can we take the love that so heavily enters our culture on one particular day in February and apply that same sense of love, yet at a deeper, more committed level all the days of our lives? Why express our love for those important in our lives on just one day? Why not every single day? Isn't it just as important to show those we love that we love them today? Why wait?
One of my favorite passages from the Bible is one often heard at weddings. It is one that, in a couple sentences, seems to encompass the most complete explanation of all that love is, both in our relationships with others and in our relationship with Christ. I leave this passage with all of you as we embark on a month dedicated to love in the material world, in hope that we may express this love to one another every day of our lives. God bless you.
"Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails."
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
In Christ's Peace and with Love,
Autumn Jones
Editor-In-Chief
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