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
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