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How do we know we are in love? Am guessing many of us can remember with a smile the wonder… and the pain.

Sometimes it takes a lifetime to discover that seasons of blind desire aren’t the same as the love that makes us good for one another.

Without taking anything from the gift and wonder of romantic love, this may be a good time to remember that love is more than something we just fall into and out of.

The 13^th chapter of Corinthians doesn’t say it all. But its author might have given us one of the most beautiful love songs ever written when, for the sake of the greatest Lover of all,  he wrote,

^“1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

²And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

³And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

⁴Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

⁵does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

⁶does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

⁷bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

¹⁰But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

¹¹When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

¹²For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

¹³And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” (1Cor 13:1-13)

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