My Battle Cry Is Love

For years the phrase “my battle cry is love” has represented something deeper to me than being nice or avoiding conflict.

Love can be resistance.

Love can be strength.

Love can be the decision not to become what wounded you.

For a follower of Jesus, the battle is not won by becoming louder, crueler or more bitter than whatever stands across from you. The challenge is learning to stand firmly in truth without surrendering love.

“My Battle Cry Is Love” grew from that conviction.

The River Testimony Session carries it as testimony rather than slogan: this is not something I claim to have mastered. It is something I am trying to learn how to live.