We have to listen to a lot of the songs that are playing in our hearts. Love is the melody that usually makes us move towards one another. When our great heartsongs are too shut down by stress or hard times in life, good music is hard to make.
A lot of the stresses are not necessary but working on leaving them behind is not easy to do. It is much easier to work on getting through the stress than it is to stop it from invading in the first place.
We have to start working through some of our life’s greatest challenges in order to make our missions have the impact that they are meant to have.
My work is in these things because many of these massive missions that people are supposed to have the capacity to do are not happening. Love is the way for our hearts to heal.
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The Excellence of Love
13 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body [a]to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 [b]bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of [c]prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I [d]became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror [e]dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the [f]greatest of these is love.
(1 Corinthians 13 New American Standard Bible (NASB))
No better words are said than this!
Thanks Graciela,
Love, Faith and Luke