When Love Becomes A Verb...

What Kind of Love Are We Talking About?

As we are in the month of June and will probably hear the I Corinthians 13 passage in most weddings that we attend in the next few weeks, I thought I would share some of my thoughts on agape love.

When I read the "Love Chapter" and think of agape love, this is what I am challenged TO DO...

• Speak with the innocence, simplicity, and purity of a child.
• Allow words to come from my heart, bypassing the filter of my head.
• Give without strings attached.
• Acknowledge the humanity of others whom I disagree.
• Let others toot my horn.
• Surrender my "right to be right".
• Stop keeping score in disagreements.
• Listen versus preparing a rebuttal when someone is talking.
• Let God distribute punishment without my assistance.
• Look for the potential in people.

These things are hard to do! Anyone who knows me also knows that there's no way that I can be self-righteous at all when it comes to this stuff. My point in writing this is to see if anyone else thinks that there is more to the "Love Chapter" than just instructions for newlyweds? I think the Apostle Paul had a broader audience in mind. How does it read for you?