Love is...

Love and honesty.

 simple, no? 

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This morning I had a meeting in which I was given an assignment...learn to love.

We think we know love, we think we know how to love... that love is this mystical emotion in relationships and marriage that either stays or goes, and a given among family members. Some think love never changes, their ideas and concepts of love can never change. But can it? 

I think I know how to love, and yet I thought I knew how to love. But in an effort to be honest with myself, be honest with those around me, I've decided to explore this idea of "love" further. 

 Is my idea of love so far from the truth? 

This is my journey- and it starts with this. We've all heard it time and time again, but have we really stopped to reflect what it means in our everyday life, our interaction with people? I can honestly say I haven't, till now.

1 Corinthians 13:4-13
 ⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ 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. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
 ⁸ 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, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. ¹¹ 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.
 ¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

This week I'm learning that Love is patient, and this I know will be one of my biggest challenges.