Editorial December 6, 2021 Issue

Living love, wherever we are

Tony Lobl

Good old predictive text. That software designed to anticipate our responses based on language patterns doesn’t always get it quite right. Answering a tech’s query about my internet browser, I wrote, “Primarily, I am a Safari user.” My phone adjusted this to “Ordinarily, I am a sardine!”

While this was cause for hearty laughter, a more recent predictive text change gave me pause. Explaining why I wouldn’t buy a product sold exclusively in the United States, I wrote, “I live in London.” But the message crossed the Atlantic as “I love in London.”

What a lovely way to describe where we live! It’s the place where we get to live our love for family, friends, and an entire community. A hymn says,

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