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 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