There is a lot of talk in our world about the need to love yourself. If you don’t love yourself how can you love anyone else? Doesn’t God’s command to “love your neighbor as yourself” presuppose that you love yourself first? Of course it does. The challenge comes when we begin to look into our hearts and lives for virtues and actions worthy of our own love. We know all of the faults and selfish intentions behind even our best acts of love. When we look deeply into our souls, we often find things that cause us to despair rather than rejoice. How then can we love ourselves at all? These are the questions with which we will wrestle today.