February 2026
I love the month of February, mostly because LOVE is emphasized everywhere we go. The pretty cards, the chocolate boxes, the beautiful flowers… I know, love is not just giving or receiving those pretty things, but they are a reminder that we have permission to love each other.
“Dear friends, let’s love each other, because love is from God, and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God”. See? In the 4th chapter of the 1 letter of John, the scripture gives us full permission to love, to remember that our capacity to love comes directly from God. The one that created us out of love, also gave us the desire to love each other.
“The person who doesn’t love does not know God, because God is love”. That’s where real love comes from, the source of the most powerful gift is God himself. Don’t be surprised when you see or learn of people who do not want to love, because they do not know God and are not aware of God’s love in their own lives. Blessings and love come to them, but they have no idea that they are gifts from God.
“This is love: it is not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son as the sacri-fice that deals with our sins”. It is so good to realize that God loved us first, deeply and complete-ly, and because of his amazing love, he sent his own son to redeem and save us.
“Dear friends, if God loved us this way, we also ought to love each other”. That’s our goal in life, our motivation, the truth that drives us to reach out to others in love. Even in the difficult situations that we encounter in life, we can trust God’s love to sustain us and guide us through.
“If we love each other, God remains in us and his love is made perfect in us”. What a beautiful promise from God! If we love each other, his love will remain in us, his presence will surround us, his peace will follow us, his goodness and mercies will assist us and his love will be perfected in our hearts, even when we feel we cannot love as well as we should.
The truth is that it may take time for us to receive and understand such powerful love, but as long as we keep on trying, and learning how to love like God loves us, we will be closer to him and to each other. Just in case we forget this command, we can look at the cards, chocolate boxes and pretty flower arrangements and smile knowing what a joy it is to obey the most beautiful command from God: LOVE!
