SHOW LOVE THROUGH OBEDIENCE

February 22, 2026

Nancie and I went on vacation to San Francisco where we saw the musical, “The Notebook” at the Orpheum Theater.  It’s a powerful play taken from the movie wherein a man named Noah, who walks with a limp, reads from a notebook to a woman with dementia named Allie.  She is actually the author of the notebook and Noah is her husband, but at first she is unaware of these facts.  As he reads to her, the events are enacted before the audience as a teenage couple and a mid-life couple portray Allie and Noah in various stages of their lives, showing the love they’ve had for each other over the years.  At the end of the play Allie finally recognizes her husband and remembers the notebook.  The musical is a tale of aging, and the beauty of loving someone for life.

In the first scene Nancie and I were weeping.  I whispered to her, “This hits close to home.”

She replied, “Too close.”

When we went back to the hotel, I turned on the TV and discovered that on HBO the movie, “The Notebook,” was playing.  So, we got to watch the movie, and we got to cry all over again.

I believe God was telling us, “Hold on to that love you have for each other.”  We’re high school sweethearts, so we’ve loved each other for 50 years, and will love each other in Christ for eternity.

Sunday I’m preaching on “Show Love through Obedience” from John 14:15-26.  We’ll look at “Love and Obey,” verse 15; and “Love through the Spirit’s Power,” verses 16-26.  As we love God, we will obey him and love others.  There is nothing more rewarding. 

Show your love Sunday by coming to church and obeying God’s command to “forsake not the assembling of yourselves together” (Hebrews 10:25).

Love,

Jim Meek