Love

Love covers a multitude of sins....

....simply stated....people can take just about anything from you, flaws and all, as long as they KNOW you love them.

Where is the love?? For God so LOVED the world, that HE gave His only begotten son.... We are supposed to be full of that same love. Who are we to love?

God
our spouses
our kids...each of them equally!!
everyone else!!

Who is everyone else???

saints
sinners
jerks
crazy people
kids
old people
smelly people
extra large people
little people
funny people
funny looking people
family
teachers
students
In-laws
Out-laws
......the list goes on.

Anyone can show love to a loveable person...actually, the bible says something just like this!!...but we are called to love the unloveable, the people who don't care about anyone but themselves, the kid who hasn't had a bath in a week because his water has been turned off because his mom couldn't pay the water bill, the self-righteous person who thinks it is their job to tell you how to do everything the "right" way, the guy in the car in front of you who just cut you off, the kid at the playground who just threw sand in your little girl's hair...etc, etc...

I will admit, I am still working on loving some of those kinds of people. We all are....

Here is my problem, though...if the church doesn't get this one right, you know, the part about LOVING people, well, then I have to wonder how long God is going to stand by and let the church misrepresent him...

"What's Love got to do with it?" you may ask. The bible says that if we have gifts of prophecy and can understand all mysteries, but have no love....then we are a resounding gong and a clanging symbol! Puts the gong show in a whole new perspective for me now! All you do for God will be "gonged" if you have not love!

Love is patient, love is kind.....