April 15, 2005

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  wow i know 3 updates in 2 days... after this week i think hiatus will be gone cause i have 15 papers due within the next week so i will be a busy little beaver but it's all good... stressin man stressin

  
  

  mainly i wanted to write this post because i wanted to touch on an important subject: love... whatever you have it... because it seems to be the big discussion on xanga and in my personal life... so yeah... first before i go into what i'd like to say really... i'm gonna put a scripture from the bible in here... i dont want anyone to be offended... this is what GOD says and i believe it whole heartedly...

  
  

  ¹ If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ² And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. ⁴ Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; ⁵ it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ⁶ it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. ¹² For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. ¹³ So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.  1 Corinthians 13

  
  

  this is one of the most powerful messages i have ever read from the bible... it means so much to me... matter of fact when i marry, i want one of my family members to recite this passage...

  
  

  to me you can read it and take from it what you believe inside... i agree with paul when he wrote this because the whole book of corinthians speaks on the ignorance of people.  corinthianize means to live shamelessly and immorally.  and so i believe paul wrote this book for people who lose their way in life... to me the passage is kind of like paul smacking you in the face saying "you think you know what love is really like... but you're wrong!"  paul says i could possess anything in this world (materials are something that people build themselves on) but if i dont have love, my life doesnt mean anything.  personally without GOD's love, without my family's love, and without my friend's love... live isnt worth living.

  
  

  paul talks about how love is all these things.  things that we take for granted in people.  has a friend ever been with you through the hardest of times? they were being patient.  has a friend ever put you first before themselves? thats where paul says love is not self-seeking.  i could go on... with every adjective he uses i look back on every relationship or friendship i've had and i realize it was love.

  
  

  paul goes on to say that when we come to a certain age we dont delve into doing childish things anymore.  it's time to grow up and be an adult.  no playing games... nothing. 

  
  

  i picked this scripture because i read someone's xanga today and all she did was talk about her boyfriend.  how he does this and how he does that.  she even went in to say how good he was in bed.  honestly that cant be love.  love isnt boastful.  when you love someone it's okay to speak about them, but you should be more concerned on their inward appearance and how beautiful they are inside... not just what they do or what you do with them.  it goes without saying that if you love someone so much, the words escape you.  those that feel that kind of love know what i mean.  i cannot express in words how much in love i am with cory, how great of a person he is, and how great of person he has made me.  thats love.  and it gives me serenity to read that "love never fails." i have hope in knowing that whatever happens will happen.  GOD cannot possibly take that love away from me.

  
  

  well man i feel like a preacher... i hope you guys took something from that... i may do this again in the future... if you guys wanna know what the bible says about certain things... ask me... i'm all ears... but i need to finish my paper so i bid ya'll g'nite (country bumpkin right there for ya) lol much love xoxo

  
  

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