Love is Patient, Love is Kind...

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day.

A holiday that can be both loved an hated based on the status of one's personal dating or martial relationship situation.

Those who do have a significant other consider February 14th a day of romance, love, and surprises. Whereas some of those (notice how I said some, not all, or even a small majority) without may speak bitterly of how it's a day solely based around shoveling money into greeting card companies and thus choose to boycott said holiday (DOWN WITH SENTIMENTAL NOTES OF VALUE AND SUGAR FILLED COCOA PRODUCTS!).

I myself don't really fall under either. For the first time in about 6 years I do not have an official date for Valentine's Day. Am I crushed? Shamed? So downtrodden with depression that I'm going to watch sappy movies, cry, and consume copious of amounts of chocolate as I come to grips with my current stag situation?

Not at all. (Though, I can't promise you a Hershey kiss or ten wont be eaten. A chocoholic needs to get her fix somehow).

Instead I choose to take this day to focus on the following passage from 1 Corinthians 13:4-7.

"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. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

Read it again
And again
Ok one more time.
Done.

Everytime I go through that passage a pair of humbling hands place themselves on my heart.

Love is patient.
Love is,
Patient.
Love
Is
Patient

I know I am not always.

It is not easily angered
It is not easily,
Angered.
It
Is
Not
Easily
Angered.

I know that sometimes I am.

I believe that one of the greatest things that we can show to each other is love. I'm not just talking about boyfriend/girlfriend or husband/wife. I'm talking about anyone. There is not a soul on this planet who is of lesser value than you or I. There is not a soul on this planet who does not deserve to be cared for, respected, or loved.

The best way to do so is by following the words written in that of 1 Corinthians.


"...Love never fails"