It’s what we all seek, but never find. You can’t see it, you can’t feel it, but it’s something we all desperately need. What is it?

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I have faith that says to a mountain “Jump,” and it jumps, but I do not have love, I am nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut. It doesn’t have a swelled head. It doesn’t force itself on others.  It isn’t always “me first.” It does not fly off the handle. It doesn’t keep score of the sins of others. It doesn’t revel when others grovel.

Love takes pleasure in the flowering of truth. It puts up with anything. It trusts God always; and always looks for the best. It never looks back; But keeps going to the end.

I pray this love, God’s love, for you, today.

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