Love is patient and kind; Love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love can Change Your Life
What is love? No words can define it -
It’s something so great only God could design it.
Wonder of wonders, beyond man conception -
And only in God can love find true perfection…
For love means much more than small words can express,
For what man calls love is so very much less
Than the beauty and depth and the true richness of
God’s gift to mankind – His compassionate love ….
For love has become a word that’s misused,
Perverted, distorted, and often abused.
To speak of light romance or some affinity for
A passing attraction that is seldom much more
Than a mere interlude of inflamed fascination,
A romantic fling of no lasting duration …
But love is enduring and patient and kind -
It judges all things with the heart, not with the mind …
And love can transform the most commonplace
Into beauty and splendor and sweetness and grace ….
For love is unselfish, giving more than it takes -
And no matter what happens, love never forsakes.
It’s faithful and trusting and always believing,
Guileless and honest and never deceiving.
Yes, love is beyond what man can define,
For love is immortal and God’s gift is divine!
by Helen Steiner Rice
Prayer: Dear Lord, help us to Love more, Love those who challenge us, Love those who need us, Love those who are troubled, and extent our Love to those who are unloved. Help us to be a light of Love to others in the dark places in our world. In the precious name of Jesus. Amen
Kathleen Sleder (2014)
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