Hi Vicki, that is my favorite chapter, now do I do all of that no, ouch do I
always have love ouch no.  But I still love no pun intended that chapter.

smiling

Lelia


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From: "j.ireland" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:09 AM
Subject: OKAY to all of us


> None of us are being thrown off list unless we choose not to abide by the
> rules.  I believe all of us know what those are.
>
> Just a reminder that this list was not designed to be a psychological
fixing
> place for anything or anybody.  It was, and still is for support, good
> discussion and honest questions, etc., etc.  I will probably post that
info
> just as soon as I can to refresh all our memories.  While we may have
> members to the list, that we can not provide help to on list, we can
provide
> prayer.  And maybe that's a big key in the forthcoming help that is
needed.
> Now, we disagree about things, and that's okay, normal and natural,
> sometimes healthy.  However...
>
> The Way of Love
>
> If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm
> nothing but
> the creaking of a rusty gate.
>
> If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making
> everything
> plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it
> jumps,
> but I don't love, I'm nothing.
>
> If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be
burned
> as a
> martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say,
> what I believe,
> and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.
>
> Love never gives up.
> Love cares more for others than for self.
> Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
> Love doesn't strut,
> Doesn't have a swelled head,
>
> Doesn't force itself on others,
> Isn't always "me first,"
> Doesn't fly off the handle,
> Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
>
> Doesn't revel when others grovel,
> Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
>
> Puts up with anything,
> Trusts God always,
> Always looks for the best,
> Never looks back,
> But keeps going to the end.
>
> Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues
> will end;
> understanding will reach its limit.
>
> We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always
> incomplete.
>
> But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
>
> When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any
> infant.
> When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
>
> We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through
a
> mist.
> But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright!
> We'll see
> it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly
just
> as he
> knows us!
>
> But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to
> lead us
> toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love
> extravagantly.
> And the best of the three is love.
>
> 1 Cor. 13 from The Message.
>
>
> Vicki
> LIST MOM
>