⁹As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.¹⁰If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. ¹¹I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.

¹²“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ¹³No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. ¹⁶You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. ¹⁷I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.”

• Light a candle to remember Christ’s presence with you.
• Sit five to fifteen minutes in silent meditation paying attention to the deep breath.
• Invite Jesus to sit with you.
• You are not a servant, but a friend.
• Speak as friends.
• Tell Jesus your innermost desires.
• Tell Jesus your secrets.
• Reveal all that you are.
• Trust, obey, and abide in Jesus the Christ.
• Make all things known.
• Then sit back and listen.
• Listen to Jesus tell you his innermost desires for you.
• How do these desires match your desires?
• Listen to Jesus reveal the truth to you.
• How do you respond to this truth?
• Listen to the ways Jesus abides in you.
• What fruit is growing in you?
• Listen to the ways Jesus loves you.
• How may you love one another?
• What is God’s message for you?
• Is there a call to action?
• Give thanks to God for this time in prayer and for any new insights you have received.
• Share as you feel led in the reply box below.