Some Thoughts On Love

I received this from Clarissa, one of the nicest persons I know in the blogosphere. Thank you, Clarissa.

This is supposed to be for Valentines, but since I believe that love is an everyday thing and isn't fit to be confined to just a day, this will always be timely. After all, love should be a 365 day affair.

With this tag, I may include my own thoughts on love, which comes to mind a favorite verse:

1 Corinthians 3: 1-13

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love,
I am 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, I am 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 disappears.
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 I am fully known.

And now these three remain:
faith, hope and love.
But the greatest of these is love.

Please feel free to grab this and spread some love.

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