Loving Others
Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus.
Philippians 2:1–5
From the Trinity, we see the prefect and true example love. The perfect, humble, other-oriented love that is displayed in the self-emptying of the Incarnation and Crucifixion reveals God precisely because it reflects what God is like within himself and throughout eternity. This is (part of) what John meant when he wrote that God is love. We are made “participants of the divine nature” of God (2 Peter 1:4). One way we can give of our selves is to give our time and attention to someone. As Simone Weil said, “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”