The
second reading today is from 1 Corinthians 13 (NIV), Saint Pauls, I would say
ultimate homage to “Love” who saved and made him passionate about the mission. He
may well be an apostle of love. He articulately describes and defines love in a
beautiful way. Let the following letter be an inspiration to us who are on the
road to love ourselves.
“If
I speak in the tongues
of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or
a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can
fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move
mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I
possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do
not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It
does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is
not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 Love does not delight in evil but
rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are
prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled;
where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when completeness comes,
what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought
like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of
childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then
we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as
I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith,
hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
Lord, many times we fall short to love
but You always carry us so we can continue loving. Thank you. Amen.
by aats
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