{"id":594,"date":"2014-02-12T13:47:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T18:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redchairblogs.wpengine.com\/holymoly\/?p=594"},"modified":"2014-02-12T13:47:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T18:47:17","slug":"the-meaning-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lynchburg.edu\/holymoly\/2014\/02\/12\/the-meaning-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valentine\u2019s Day is a time when we celebrate <b>love.\u00a0 <\/b>Nothing to me really explains the meaning of <b>love<\/b> as comprehensively as the scripture from:<\/p>\n<p>1 Corinthians 13:1-8<\/p>\n<p><i>If I speak in human and angelic tongues, but do not have <b>love<\/b>, I am a resounding gong or a clashing symbol. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have <b>love<\/b>, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast, but do not have <b>love<\/b>, I gain nothing. <b>Love<\/b> is patient, <b>love<\/b> is kind,<b> love<\/b> is not jealous, <b>love<\/b> is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.\u00a0 <b>Love<\/b> bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. <b>Love<\/b> never fails. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Valentine\u2019s Day is an opportunity to celebrate <b>love<\/b> and its presence in our lives. I am thankful every day that my God is a God of <b>love<\/b>; one that celebrates with me the <b>love<\/b> that I share in relationship with my husband, the <b>love<\/b> I have for my children and grandchildren, my siblings and my Mother, and the <b>love<\/b> I share with friends and those to whom I am called to minister. I am not saying that <b>loving <\/b>someone is an easy task. I believe it is challenging, especially the \u201cpatient, not jealous, endures all things\u201d kind. I am challenged when someone hurts me, I am challenged by those who are on death row, terrorists, people I perceive as rude, those who commit crimes against others\u2026.the list goes on. I guess the part about <b>love<\/b> not brooding over injury speaks to that challenge. It is much easier to <b>love<\/b> those who <b>love<\/b> me back. If I am perfectly honest with myself, I have to admit that even those folks get on my nerves sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>As Valentine\u2019s Day approaches I thank God for the example of <b>love <\/b>that bears, believes, hopes and endures all things, the kind of <b>love<\/b> that is God. I pray that my heart will always be open to <b>love<\/b> as God <b>loves, <\/b>no matter what!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valentine\u2019s Day is a time when we celebrate love.\u00a0 Nothing to me really explains the meaning of love as comprehensively as the scripture from: 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 If I speak in human and angelic tongues, but do not have love, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lynchburg.edu\/holymoly\/2014\/02\/12\/the-meaning-of-love\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Meaning of Love<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1QIf6-9A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lynchburg.edu\/holymoly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lynchburg.edu\/holymoly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lynchburg.edu\/holymoly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lynchburg.edu\/holymoly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lynchburg.edu\/holymoly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lynchburg.edu\/holymoly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lynchburg.edu\/holymoly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lynchburg.edu\/holymoly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lynchburg.edu\/holymoly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}