Love is Kind: Love is Patient

Love Is Kind Love Is Patient

I remember the days the before my wedding, there was still so much to do, and it felt like there was not time, flowers to order, last fitting for the girls, and then the priest tell us we need to pick a verse of two from the Bible. Now I was not a big bible reader back then, it was not encouraged in the Catholic Church, but my husband having spent some time attending a Pentecostal Church knew the Bible inside and out. I don’t recall the exact reading we picked, but I recall the priest stating that “A daughter will leave his parents, and she will become one, in unison will her husband”; and then he was quiet for a second or two. I thought we chose the wrong passage, or did something wrong; but he looked at my husband and I; stating that we knew the true meaning of love, and he thought we would be together forever, because we did not choose the normal Love is Kind, passage from

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1 Corinthian 13; 4-8 that states:

“Love in patient, Love is Kind

It is not jealous

Love does not act unbecomingly,

It does not seek it own,

Is not provoked

Love does not take into

Account a wrong suffered

Love does not rejoice

In unrighteousness

But rejoices in the truth.

Love bears all things

Believes all things

Hopes all things

 Endure all things”

Love never fails

I wrote this part so that you can understand what happened next.

The priest busted out saying: Love is not patient, Love is not kind, and people who chose this passage are clueless. Love is jealous, it can be painful, you will argue and you will fight and today’s love does not endure all things, because in today world; love is failing all the time.

My wedding was over 21 years ago, and when I here that passage during a wedding, I recall what my priest had said; and I pray that in this one cause, this love will endure all things, and their love will never fail.
For better or worse, til death do us part!

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