Very cool. they must be special people, too, just like you.
Vicki
----- Original Message -----
From: "paulette stokes" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: Love
> Hi I know David and Renee Sandford, They are good friends of mine.
>
> Paulette
>
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >From: Vicki and The Rors <[log in to unmask]
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:57:00 -0700
> >Subject: Re: Love
>
> >That was my feeling on it too Lelia. Sure made me think.
>
> >Vicki
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Lelia Struve" <[log in to unmask]
> >To: <[log in to unmask]
> >Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 2:08 PM
> >Subject: Re: Love
>
>
> >> Wow I like that and ouch too
>
>
> >> Lelia Struve email [log in to unmask] msn [log in to unmask]
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Vicki and The Rors" <[log in to unmask]
> >> To: <[log in to unmask]
> >> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 2:04 PM
> >> Subject: Love
>
>
> >>> This came to me via another list. Thought it was well worth sharing.
> >>> Hope
> >>> you find it as thought provoking as I have.
>
>
>
> >>> LOVE: A PARAPHRASE OF 1 CORINTHIANS 13
> >>> If I talk a lot about God and the Bible and Church, but I fail to ask
> >>> about
> >>> your needs and then help you, I'm simply making a lot of empty
religiou=
> s
> >>> noise.
>
> >>> If I graduate from Bible college 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
tim=
> e
> >>> 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
poo=
> r
> >>> 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 mums 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
bui=
> ld
> >>> itself up
> >>> to be something it isn't. Love doesn't act in a loose, immoral way.
I=
> t
> >>> 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
certain=
> ly
> >>> 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
wha=
> t
> >>> 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!
>
> >>> David Sanford
>
> >>> David Sanford serves as adjunct professor of journalism at Western
> >Baptist
> >>> College (
> >>> www.wbc.edu
> >>> ). David and his wife Ren=E9e are co-authors of the
> >>> 400 pages of devotional application notes in the Living Faith Bible
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