As I have pondered my children's development lately, the things that I have learned have all pointed back to the importance and effectiveness of love in action. I find myself often considering how withholding interaction or affection may have affected them, and how continued involvement and engagement may heal and prosper them.
People like me need to hear the words of 1 Corinthians 13 often. We are doers; we are cerebral and somewhat socially inept. We need to be reminded that all of those good things like prophecy and knowledge will pass away, but love will last forever. Even biology bears this out; love creates the pathways that make people more and more like the image of God, and that lasts forever. Love endures. Perhaps this is the kind of knowledge people like me need - that which satisfies the cerebral curiosity but also encourages deep affection. There are few outlets of this level of thinking about relating.
So now I will get ready for church - get showered and dressed up, and see what we will learn and find today.
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