Sunday, June 12, 2022

 

What happens when love is neither patient or kind?  


When love is perverted and twisted into jealousies and grandiose boasts of power and superpower?  


When it is arrogant and rude?


When it insists on its own way, at the expense of everything and everybody?


When it is irritable and resentful, especially of planted, false information and misleading fraudulent claims?


When it rejoices and delights at wrongdoing? 


When it rejoices with the sins and lies? 


When it does not bear anything, but exploitation, theft and harm?


Then it is not love or faith of any kind. 


Because "Love is patient and kind;          love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 


Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."


                                - 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7



Is it still love when it puts one's own needs and desires ahead of someone else's needs, especially if it's without consent or consideration?


“Love is putting someone else's needs before yours.”     

 

                                 -Olaf in Disney's Frozen


What happens when it is not love and there is no love? 




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