Love is...

God and God is love.

When I was at a Mother's retreat a few years back, we did an exercise that I now do on a regular basis. The thought behind it is that we as mothers entrusted with God's children should try to emulate God as parent. And since God is love, we too, should try to be love. So, we took the familiar Corinthians reading, famous for weddings, and exchanged our name for the word love or it. Give it a try. Put your name in the blanks and see how well you match up to divine love.



__________ is patient, ________ is kind. ________ does not envy, ________ does not boast, ________ is not proud. ________ is not rude, ________ is not self-seeking, ________ is not easily angered, ________ keeps no record of wrongs. ________ does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ________ always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (New International Version)


ok ok. so we probably don't score very high. but it makes you think, doesn't it? Thankfully, eventhough we are not perfect, we start anew every morning. And every morning we can cry out for help in trying to live out our lives of love.

Happy Love Thursday