Beloved, Happy Valentine's Day. It is the day that we set aside to celebrate love. What is love? 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 says, "Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." And, I will add the first part of the next verse, "Love

Beloved, Yesterday, I received some sad news. One of my family friends passed. He was someone who I had known since I was a child and our families had always been close. His mother was my godmother. His brother, a local pastor, participated in my installation at Zion. He passed from an aggressive form of leukemia. Now, my sadness in losing him was quickly surpassed by my joy in knowing that he is in a better place. You see, his brother, told me that he knew where his he