Christ was crucified by love - his love for you and for me. It is as we discover such deep, self sacrificing love that we too respond to him in love; "Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soull, my life, my all." What does this mean for us? We cannot love without at some point being crucified by our love for others too. We often get cruciified by those we love, and it is this love that holds us from crucifying them back. Such love we learn from Jesus. It is tough love, hurting love, painful love, crucifying love! Tough, hurting, painful and crucifying because it hurts the one who loves more than the one who is loved. This is tough love which desires only the well being of those we love, and hope they will realise the depth of such love, and in so realising, return the very love they rejected. Lord Jesus Christ, teach me to love as you loved, forgive as you forgave and just as you did not forsake those who crucified you, let me never forsake those whom I love even when I have reason not to love them. Amen