Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Deuteronomy 6:4&5

The importance of these words? Jesus repeats them (see Matthew 22:27-40), along with Love your neighbor as yourself, and emphasizes the truth that all the commandments of scripture hang from these.

Loving God and loving others.

So simple. So terribly difficult.

So worth pursuing, because I and you and everyone else around the world need it so much.

Week twelve of reading the Bible cover to cover