Like a broken record…

So I have a lot on my mind lately, getting things ready for some big changes, security concerns, one client I am considering dropping and moving on after a few years working with them, personal life insanity, work (going good but I miss sleep) - but one chunk of verses I keep coming back to, and I think for everyone it’s important, if your in a romantic relationship, a friendship, family bonds, etc. the importance of love, and what it is:

1 Corinthians 13
The Way of Love

1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.

3 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

4 Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head,

5 Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,

6 Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,

7 Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best, Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.

8 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit.

9 We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete.

10 But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

Good stuff - for me I have been racking my brain with something, I can’t decide to tell someone or not, and based upon these scriptures taken from the message, I imagine you kind of get a hint of the topic - love to me is also total vulnerability, offering up yourself for another, be it in the love of family, love of friends, love of that special someone, it’s all those things - but it does in the realm of romantic involvement come with risk - man the joys of growing up late

One day I will grow up though (I’m thinking 32 or so, maybe work my way up to acting at least 12) - but for now, going to let this set of scriptures roll a bit more - because above and beyond everything else I mentioned, this scripture is how God chose to love us - we as humans were tainted with sin, and sin led to death, but through it all God sent his son and loved us and never gave up on us, loved us all the way to the cross to defeat the hold sin and death had on all of us, and gave us a chance at life. God is Good.