"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength" - how do you feel, when you hear this? Inspired? Challenged? Inspired because it resonates with something deep in your heart, that deep desire to love God with "all" your heart - soul - strength? Challenged because you feel it is almost impossible.

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 known as the Shema (Hebrew word for "Hear" - the first word for verse 4) is a Jewish confession of faith. What can we learn from the Shema? We can learn to "hear" - that there is only one God, there is no other. We can learn to "love" this one God with all our heart - soul - strength, moment by moment. We can learn to "write" God's word in our heart, read-meditate-study-memorise. We can learn to "repeat" God's word to our children - so that they too will "hear - love- write-repeat."

What happens when we internalize God's word? It will show forth in our actions, in our reasoning, and in the way we live. Our everyday life will witness - that we have truly heard this one God; that we really love this one God; that we have truly written God's Word in our hearts; and that our family members too have heard from us and therefore have gone on to incarnate/flesh out the living word of God.