REVOLUTIONARY THOUGHTS

May 21, 2003 14:40

My most recent revolutionary thoughts have been on the subject of what?Love,what else should the doctor of love most be thinking of(that is an inside joke for some)
But what does the authority on love say about it?One of the most popular passages in the bible is on the subject of love.That is 1Corinthians chapter 13.
"if I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,but have not love,Iam 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 have not love,Iam nothing.If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,but have not love,I gain nothing.
Love is patient,love is kind.It does not envy ,it does not boast,it is not proud.It is not rude,it is not self-seeking,it is not easily angered,it keeps no record of wrongs.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.For we know in part and we prophecy in part but when perfection comes,the imperfect dissappears.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 childish ways behind me.Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror;then we shall see face to face.Now I know in part;then I shall know fully ,even as Iam fully known.
And now these three remain:faith,hope and love.But the greatest of these is LOVE."
This passage in the bible, beautiful, perhaps even poetic and so truely a depiction of what the deepest recesses of our hearts know love has to be and yet how very often do we not measure up?How often do we blow it?How often do we fail to act even remotely as this passage describes even to those closest to us?And sadly more often than not we fail to act this way especially with those closest to us.Are you a loving person,am I?
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