Learning to Love Yourself

Message Notes

Self compassion is about learning to relate to ourselves kindly, embracing ourselves as we are, flaws and all. It’s realizing our shared experience, as humans, that we are all flawed. We are all in this together. But we can never truly be friends to others, to love and forgive and care for others, until we have learned to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.

34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Matthew 22:34-40