8-9-16 Love is Indispensable

 •Love is indispensable• 

If love is patient and love is kind, then I am not love

If love does not envy or boast, then I am not love

If love is not proud, then I am not love

If love does not dishonor others and is not self-seeking, then I am not love

If love is not easily angered and keeps no record of wrongs, then I am not love

If love does not delight in evil, then I am not love

If love always protects, then I am not love

If love always hopes and always preserves, then I am not love 

I cannot be love 

However I know someone who is love

From the beginning of time and age 

Writing love into the valleys and peaks

Striking the sky

Carving the roots in the ground and painting every wing of each butterfly 

Turning streams into oceans 

Rocks into mountains 

Seeds into forests

Deserts into biomes

Women into mothers

Children into creators 

Metal hearts into melting chasms

Growing grass on dry roads

Evil whispers

"Love isn't real"

So you throw yourself away

Stripping yourself of your modesty, your dignity, your hope

Selling it to serpents and greedy hands

But only in exchange for quick pleasure and a fake reality 

But you are worth more than rubies 

More than your flesh

More than the mountains, rivers, seas, and valleys 

You are the child of a king 

The only way you can show love is if you let the creator of love take your weary hand 

Let Him show you the mountains and valleys 

But also let him show you the dirty alleyways and greedy serpents 

That is where love is needed

Where love must be patient and kind 

Where love does not envy or boast or is proud 

Where it does not dishonor others or self-seeking

Where it is not easily angered and keeps no record of wrongs

It delights in truth not evil 

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes and always preserves 

Where love never fails

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