Dear Lord,

I bring before you those whom I love,

Watch over them,

And keep them safe from all harm.

Amen.

 

Love comforteth,

like sunshine after rain.

 

Love ever gives, forgives, outlives,

And ever stands with open hands,

And while it lives it gives.

For this is love's prerogative,

To give, and give, and give.

 

God bless all those that I love.

God bless all those that love me.

God bless all those that love those that I love

And all those that love those that love me.

From a 17th century needlework sampler

 

He loves each one of us,

as if there were only one of us.

St Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

 

Everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God, but the unloving know nothing of God. For God is love: and his love was disclosed to us in this, that he sent his only Son into the world to bring us life.

1st Epistle of John, chapter 4, verses 8-9