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I’ve been thinking a lot about love recently. Last week the lectionary text was Matthew 22:34-46, where Jesus teaches that the greatest commandment is to love God with all our heart, soul and mind, and that the second is like it, to love our neighbors as ourselves. To love God and others is the foundation of what it is to be Christian.

I have also been thinking a lot about my grandmother. She is one of the people who taught me about what it means to love. She enjoyed dressing up for Halloween right up until the end of her 95 years here on Earth, so I often think of her at this time of year. My...