Happy New Year. Here comes 2018.

CLOH .org = Caring, Loving, Open, Honest.

On this first day of the new year, let’s consider the first concept, CARING.

Comment from Kevin DeForrest via a Facebook post.

That’s a contract. “If you _____, then I’ll ______.” A covenant, on the other hand, says “I will _______ no matter what you do.” Caring is covenantal, not contractual.

Dictionary for convental: Of or pertaining to a covenant.

covenant (from Websters)

• • a binding and solemn agreement to do or keep from doing a specified thing; compact
  • an agreement among members of a church to defend and maintain its doctrines, polity, and faith
    • [C-] an agreement of Presbyterians in Scotland in 1638 to oppose episcopacy
      also called National Covenant
    • [C-] an agreement between the parliaments of Scotland and England in 1643 to extend and preserve Presbyterianism
      also called Solemn League and Covenant

LAW

• • a formal, sealed contract
  • a clause of such a contract
  • a suit for damages for violation of such a contract

THEOL.

• the promise made by God to humanity and the relationship it established, as described in the Bible