VALENTINE WISH

There are all kinds of love, because there are all kinds of relationships.

My wish for you on this Valentine’s Day is that you find your true self in this message, and that you recognize how your love operates inside that true self.  And maybe, if you look deep enough, you’ll find you’ve veered away from the truest love of which your true self is capable, and find a way to make a Valentine’s Day gift of the journey back.

Love does not insist on its own agenda. 

Love seeks to do good deeds to meet pressing needs.

Love is not eager to possess that which belongs to another.

Love is not arrogant.

Love does not act inappropriately, in a way that embarrasses others.

Love does not first seek her own benefit—

    love is not a commodity to be withheld or traded.

Love does not irritate another.

Love does not assume an evil motive. 

Love takes no pleasure in injustice, but celebrates truth.

Love endures through the unbearable. 

    Love trusts through the inexplicable. 

        Love hopes through the improbable. 

Love perseveres through trial.

Love never ends; 

    when earth and heaven are renewed, love remains.

(1 Corinthians 13:4–7; paraphrase by Michael Fox)