Chapter 5: Love Is. (Part 1)
* If you carry childhood notions of love into adulthood, you won't live happily ever after.
* Using Paul's teaching on love (1 Corinthians 13:11). Walking backwards, Paul says he put away his childhood (fantasies of love) behind him when he became a man.
* Paul's teaching: love is/does (verb). This is our 'become list':
Love is patient,
Love is kind
It does not envy,
It does not boast,
It is not proud.
It does not dishonour others,
It is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
(Side note/ not related to book: Jesus instructs us to love our enemies too right?? That means applying this list of characteristics too....food for thought).
* If both parties master the art of love as written above, you will get your 'happily ever after.' Sounds so simple yet so hard.
* Whatever you hope your future partner is from the list, start working on becoming that yourself.
* A childish thought: 'if I find someone who is crazy about me like I am about them, everything on the list will magically happen.' --> false thinking.
So what do each characteristic mean exactly??
Chapter 5: Love Is (Part 2: Paul's list)
.... to be continued....
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