Tonight as I looked around the room at these women who have spent the last three months growing together, I was amazed, as always, at how sharing one evening a week has turned us into sisters.  From that first night when we were all so careful and tentative we have come through long days and mothers’ heartaches… prayers upon prayers… worries and laughter and many cups of tea…until tonight we share final requests and insights.  “Pray for me; I need wisdom.  Pray for my children.  Pray that I will stay close to God.  Pray that I can forgive.”  The murmured requests written down and rising up to Heaven.

And so we leave this study on love behind and press on into the future.  Have we become Women of Love?  Not yet, but still becoming, and hopefully understanding Christ’s Law of Love more heart-deeply than when we started.  Committed together to the pursuit of love, for His sake.

“Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents.  Mostly what God does is love you.  Keep company with him and learn a life of love.  Observe how Christ loved us.  His love was not cautious but extravagant.  He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us.  Love like that.”  (Ephesians 5: 1-2 The Message)