Love is

After I Corinthians 13:4-8 

Love is patient,

   even at red lights

   and in checkout lines.

Love is kind,

   even in the face of meanness

   and rude co-workers.

Love does not envy,

   even when losing a promotion

   or someone else taking credit.

Love is not arrogant,

   even when you’re proven right

   or get singled out for praise.

Love is not rude,

   even when you’re cut off in traffic

   or someone breaks in line.

Love isn’t my way or the highway,

   even when someone is wrong

   or refuses to listen to reason.

Love is not irritable,

   even when you’re overworked

   or didn’t get enough sleep.

Love doesn’t celebrate wrong,

   even when there’s no cost

   or the crowd demands it. 

Loves rejoices at the truth,

   even when there’s a cost

   or attacks will follow.

Love bears all things,

   even when the burden is heavy

   even when it hurts.

Love hopes for all things,

   even when it looks hopeless,

   even when hope is ridiculed.

Love endures all things,

   even the never-ending trial

   or when endurance feels like death.

Love never ends

   even when friendship goes wrong

   or when death arrives.

Love is.

 

Photograph by Fado Xd via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

I’m Not a Handyman – O. Alan Noble at You Are Not Your Own.

 

A Lamb and a Shepherd Among the Wolves – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

Arabian Fights: The Rise of Islam and the Resilience of the Church – Donald Fairbairn at Desiring God.