some lessons I've learned about LOVE:

uhmmm....to be honest, yes,.. i am inlove. and i need not go further.. it is true, i am inlove. so let's go ahead and talk about this.....

...Love.

what is it?

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines it as a “warm attachment, enthusiasm or affection for something or someone.” Not exactly something any of us would want to do without. How can anyone deny that having (or receiving) a sense of enthusiasm, warmth, or affection for or from others is not a constant fix on many of our daily prayer lists?

For those of you who are feeling underappreciated at work, underappreciated by family members and friends, or at times, may even feel underappreciated by God, it easy to see how we all could use a little bit of the kind of love Webster describes above. Well...yeah..i've felt that at times, i even felt it a while ago..i was closed to crying on the street.. i just had to stop it cos some friends came.. (i had to hide it and keep that so-called "emotion"). *there’s just a slight problem: God describes love a totally different way.

1 Corinthians 13 (a passage familiar to many of us) has a very interesting way of describing love.

Love suffers long. And is kind. (Sounds strange, right? Honestly, who wants to be kind after suffering?)

Love does not envy. Love does not boast or is proud. Love does not behave rudely. It is not easily angered. It keeps no wrongs. (Keeps no wrongs? Not proud? You must not know what I’m going through…)

Love rejoices in truth. It bears all things. Believes all things. Love hopes all things. Endures all things. (Bearing? Enduring? What happen to the warmth? The affection?)

Love never fails.

Not exactly the kind of love list you and I make as believers, is it?

TOUGH, isnt it? but that’s just what love is: tough.

Are you ready to love? to receive it? and to give it?

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