A Bit More Background....

I bet it's difficult to stay with this for 40 days. If you prefer to start at 40 and do a countdown, let me just place here the quote regarding the Jesus Creed that begins the thread. Forward, backward, upside downward....who cares. Just dwelling on this theme is worth a thousand words!

From Mark 12:29-31, but similar versions found also in Matthew and Luke:

"The first of all the commandments is: 'Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."