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For prayer and meditation:  1 Cor. 13:4-7 (NLT) 

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

I’ve been meditating on this passage of scripture. I tend to spiritualize this somehow but not put it into practice in everyday relationships.  I must remind myself this concept applies to the way I treat family, friends, church family and people in general as I go through life.  In fact it even applies to my enemies!

There is a prevailing thought that love comes easy when really the words, love and easy, cannot cohabit.  There is nothing easy about true love.  We cannot love by emotions or trying harder. We’ve got to let God do a work in us…a continuing work, from the inside out…God’s Spirit doing the loving through us, overriding our human-ness.

I am praying for God to do this work in me, in you and in all of His children.  Desire is the key, He will do the rest…if we ask with a believing heart.  God is love and will take us on a “love journey” to teach us what it is to really love someone…Happy Travels!