James Lyness Loving

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The following “Grad at Grad Reflection” talk was delivered by Mr. James Lyness at morning assembly on February 26, 2013. “A Loyola student is becoming more loving” Good morning! A Loyola student is becoming more loving. Love is a Many Splendored Thing; Love Can Make You Happy; Love, Love Will Keep Us Together; Love is in the Air; Our Love is Here to Stay; Love Makes the World Go ‘Round Numerous songs revolve around the theme of that powerful emotion, love. A Loyola student is becoming more loving, yet the Tina Turner song dares to ask, “What’s love got to do, got to do with it???” “What’s love got to do with it?” I’d say that love has got just about everything to do with it! As St. Paul told us in his letter to the Corinthians: We can speak in all of the languages of human beings or even of the angels, but if we don’t have love, our speech is nothing more than a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. We can give away everything we have to the poor and even go as far as to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of others, but if we don’t have love, we gain nothing. That’s a pretty strong message. Jesus gave us an equally strong message when he told his apostles at the last supper that he was giving them a new commandment. Jesus said, “Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. If you have love for one another, then everyone will know that you are my disciples.” It seems that if we want to follow the teachings of Christ, this “love thing” is a pretty important aspect of it. According to the Grad-at-Grad document, a person who is loving is recognizing that he or she is loved by God and others. I suspect that for all of us, the recognition that we are loved came from our parents. I remember one time when I was 8 or 9, I ended up in a fight in my back yard


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