Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Love doesn’t have a swelled head,
Love 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 the truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
First Corinthians 13:4-7.
Hola Amigo Felipe!
One of those unexpected blessings that it was my turn as Lector this morning and was privileged to read those wonderful words of Paul. I get goosebumps doing that reading, and have to concentrate on not getting so emotional that my voice quivers. I have been doing lector duty as long as I can remember, and was told by one of the “little old church ladies” many years ago that she enjoyed my turn at the pulpit. “You don’t read to us”, she said “you make it sound like you’re talking to us and telling us a wonderful story”. No higher praise ever hoped for.
My addition to your wonderful list: “Love grows where happiness is sown”. Farmer like, right?
Peace be with you Amigo!
SF,
PFJ
PFJuan ~ hey, welcome back. So glad to hear from you. And good to hear that you are making yourself useful. A that’s a joke of course.
Oh, the dog just ate another piece of Rebecca’s jigsaw puzzle. Man, he is going to be off her Christmas list for sure.
Nice that you are getting kudos from the little old church ladies. They are the heavy hitters of the parish. It’s an honor to please them.
Yes, Paul’s words are very special aren’t they. He is still speaking to us gentiles two thousand years later. I think it is the timelessness that trips us up. But it’s more than that too.
Thanks for sharing yourself with us. Love you my friend, Felipe.