Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-8a and 13
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails....And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (NIV)

This week has been pretty meaty, i hadnt really had much time to just relax and just think to myself. A combination of a bunch of extra curricular activities and school has really taken up a lot of my time. I can tell its starting to affect me in a lot of ways. I notice in the morning prayers i feel so much less fufilled and more empty because i havent had saturday prayers and even a sunday service. I have to admit, whenever i dont have those things to really fall back on and reflect, i feel, idk less complete? Im not sure if im too reliant on saturday's and sunday's to kinda get the juices flowing so to speak.

Well to that passage, for some reason the words love is patient or love is slow to anger always comes to my head, maybe God is trying to continuely tell me this daily. I looked up the entire passage and here it is. This is most defintely something i wanna memorize and just say to myself. Not as some kind of mantra or discipline, maybe more as a reminder, an encourage, a benchmark because love that is forced or conditional is so ugly, but true, christian, brotherly, self sacricing love is so amazing.

that's just an amazing passage