That was my feeling on it too Lelia.  Sure made me think.

Vicki

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From: "Lelia Struve" <[log in to unmask]>
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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]
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> 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 religious
> > 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 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 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 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!
> >
> > David Sanford
> >
> > David Sanford serves as adjunct professor of journalism at Western
Baptist
> > College (
> > www.wbc.edu
> > ). David and his wife Renée are co-authors of the
> > 400 pages of devotional application notes in the Living Faith Bible
> >