Love

I opened my Bible this morning - not in search of anything in particular just searching -  and was blown away by what I read.  I felt the need to share.

1Corinthians 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.  But where there are prophecies, they will cease;  where there are tongues, they will be stilled;  where there is knowledge, it will pass away.  For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.  When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.  When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now I know in part;  then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain:  faith, hope and love.  But the greatest of these is love."

If my last day on this earth would have been yesterday - and each of you could smile today knowing that you were truly loved by me - then I would be a very happy angel.

I can make a list of THINGS my days are consumed by, but none are listed above loving you.

peace, love and hope

betha