LOVE:

A PARAPHRASE OF 1 CORINTHIANS 13

If I talk a lot about God and the Bible
and the Church, but I fail to ask about
your needs and then help you, I'm simply
making a lot of empty religious noise.

If I graduate from theological seminary
and know all the answers to questions you'll
never even think of asking, and if I have all
the degrees to prove it and if I say I believe
in God with all my heart, and soul and strength,
and claim to have incredible answers to my prayers
to show it, but I fail to take the time to find out
where you're at and what makes you laugh and
why you cry, I'm nothing.

If I sell an extra car and some of my books to
raise money for some poor starving kids
somewhere, and if I give my life for God's service
and burn out after pouring everything I have
into the work, but do it all without ever once
thinking about the people, the real hurting people ~
the moms and dads and sons and daughters and
orphans and widows and the lonely and hurting ~
if I pour my life into the Kingdom but forget
to make it relevant to those here on earth,
my energy is wasted, and so is my life.

Here is what love is like--genuine love.
God's kind of love.

It's patient. It can wait.
It helps others, even if they never
find out who did it.

Love doesn't look for greener pastures
or dream of how things could be better
if I just got rid of all my current commitments.

Love doesn't boast.
It doesn't try to build itself
up to be something it isn't.

Love doesn't act in a loose,
immoral way. It doesn't seek to take,
but it willingly gives.

Love doesn't lose its cool.
It doesn't turn on and off.

Love doesn't think about how bad the
other person is, and certainly doesn't
think of how it could get back at someone.

Love is grieved deeply (as God is) over the evil
in this world, but it rejoices over truth.

Love comes and sits with you when you're
feeling down and finds out what is wrong.
It empathizes with you and believes in you.

Love knows you'll come through just as
God planned, and love sticks right beside
you all the way.

Love doesn't give up, or quit, or
diminish or go home.

Love keeps on keeping on, even when
everything goes wrong and the feelings
leave and the other person doesn't
seem as special anymore.

Love succeeds 100 percent of the time.
That, my friend, is what real love is!

by: David Sanford.
Copyright 2003
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+++++++++++++++++Todays Thought+++++++++++++++++
You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

GOD Bless
Lourie and Sonya

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