EXCELLENT

And now I will show you the most excellent way.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but

have not love, I am a resounding gong or a clanging

cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom

all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith

that can move mountains, but have not love, I am

nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender

my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not

boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, 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 trusts, always hopes, always

perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will

cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where

there is knowledge it will pass away. For we know in part

and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the

imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child,

I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a

man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection

as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then

I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of

these is love.

(I. Corinthians 12.31b-13.1-13).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!