sloth

yes... i've been too lazy to finish up my assignments (the arts t-shirt design, the grand candle meeting email & ppt slides, mm poster, caw poster, caroling write-up, etc?) but well, i figured i could at least share this passage... very nice reflective new yearsy one from 4th Jan's liturgy.

1 John 3:11-21

This is the message
as you have heard it from the beginning:
that we are to love one another;
not to be like Cain, who belong to the Evil One
and cut his brother's throat;
cut his brother's throat simply for this reason,
that his own lie was evil and his brother lived a good life.
You must not be surprised, brothers, when the world hates you;
we have passed out of death and into life.
and of this we can be sure
because we love our brothers.
If you refuse to love, you must remain dead;
to hate your brother is to be a murderer,
and murderers, as you know, do not have eternal life in them.
This has taught us to love -
that he gave up his life of us:
and we, too, ought to give up our lives for our brothers.
If a man who was rich enough in this world's goods
saw that one of his brothers was in need,
but closed his heart to him,
how could the love of God be living in him?
My children,
our love is not to be just words or mere talk,
but something real and active;
only by this can we be certain
that we are children of the truth
and be able to quieten our conscience in his presence,
whatever accusations it may raise against us,
because God is greater than our conscience and he knows everything.
My dear people,
if we cannot be condemned by our own conscience,
we need not be afraid in God's presence.

(plagiarised from oxygen, so minor typos may abound... i believe they use New Jerusalem Bible.)