John 15:12-15
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Homily:
Nowhere is love more evident than in a family.
The man is expected to lay down his life to protect his family – toil for subsistence.
The woman literally lays down her life to grow her family – child birth.
The child is expected to lay down his/her life to preserve the family – resist the enemy.
“…there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” – Proverbs 18:24
There are friends that toil with us.
There are friends that birth our dreams with us.
There are friends that resist the enemy with us.
Prioritize such friendships. Be such a friend.