Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

Today’s Reflection

We talk a lot in the church about loving God and loving our neighbors, but we do a horrendous job of learning and practicing what it really means to love ourselves.

—Caroline Vogel, As Yourself: The Sacred Work of Embodying Grace (Upper Room Books, 2026)

Today’s Question

How do you balance loving God, your neighbors, and yourself? Which of these do you do the worst job of loving?

Today’s Scripture

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.—Deuteronomy 6:5 (NRSVUE)

Prayer for the Week

God, you are always bringing about your kingdom on earth. Give me the presence of mind to see your grace and love all around me. Amen.