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Maya Angelou tells the story ofbeing raised by her Grandma, who believed in her through the years when Maya would not speak. Grandma told her: "You're going to be a teacher, and teach all over the world." Her grandma's prophecy came true. Angelou concludes: “I am grateful to have been loved, and to be loved now, and to be able to love. Because that love liberates. It doesn’t just hold—that’s ego. Love liberates.”

Love is all over our texts today. A love that liberates, that calls us into a new relationship of mutuality with Christ; a love which calls the church through the Holy Spirit to stretch beyond perceived limitations and embrace in freedom and joy the vocation of loving others.