"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, is not easily angered, and 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."
If we applied this everyday... I think everything... everything... would be better. This is extraordinary, noble, sympathetic, supernatural love.
Jesus said 'Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.'
How could we do this day by day? Lay it down... the envy, boastfulness, pride... if we think this doesn't apply to us, if we only ever see it in others and not ourselves... we are probably not checking our hearts deeply enough. Lay it down... the pointing out of past transgressions, the anger, the I told you so.
Protect instead of expose. Trust instead of doubt. Hope instead of despair. Perseverance... a valuable love quality... instead of apathy.
This is love, more than a feeling, more than a decision... a sacred condition.
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