Kate and Amy in their Valentine's best.
We have had the most wonderful Valentine's Day weekend. It has been such a joy to have Matt's parents in town and we have loved being able to spend lots of time with them.
We have had the most wonderful Valentine's Day weekend. It has been such a joy to have Matt's parents in town and we have loved being able to spend lots of time with them. I love our family and I especially love my sister in law, Ashley. She has become such a great friend and Matt and I adore having her around. She is a wonderful new mom to Amy, a great wife to Dave, and an amazing sister and friend. We are really thankful for her.
We enjoyed a great day at church yesterday and then a relaxing afternoon, followed by a wonderfully special sweethearts dinner. Ashley made a delicious lasagna and salad and we had so many treats! Brownies, chocolate dipped strawberries, huge sugar and cookies! YUM!! We enjoyed the time together so much.
Yesterday, I thought a lot about love and what it truly means. Whenever I think of love I think of I Corinthians 13. Growing up, we always called it the "love chapter". I was reminded of it yesterday when one of my Sunday School kids gave me a big bag of my favorite treat- gummy bears! It had a sweet note attached that said "Love BEARS all things". I know that chapter of I Corinthians really well, but I needed to be reminded that love does bear all things. It works through every hardship, every struggle, every situation as well as the sweet times life has in store. That got me thinking of Charity-the true love of Christ. That unconditional love not just for those that are lovable, but the ones that are difficult to love. The ones who hurt us, the ones that are inconsiderate, the ones that make life difficult to enjoy. In a way those people are the ones that need love more than anyone else. It's so good to know that our Savior's true love can enfold us like a blanket and carry us through the dark times and help us love the unlovable.
So when you read about love in I Corinthians 13, try replacing the words charity or love with your name. We can do all the right things and go through the motions of doing amazing deeds, but without love - for everyone- it is worth nothing.
1 Corinthians 13
1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
We enjoyed a great day at church yesterday and then a relaxing afternoon, followed by a wonderfully special sweethearts dinner. Ashley made a delicious lasagna and salad and we had so many treats! Brownies, chocolate dipped strawberries, huge sugar and cookies! YUM!! We enjoyed the time together so much.
Yesterday, I thought a lot about love and what it truly means. Whenever I think of love I think of I Corinthians 13. Growing up, we always called it the "love chapter". I was reminded of it yesterday when one of my Sunday School kids gave me a big bag of my favorite treat- gummy bears! It had a sweet note attached that said "Love BEARS all things". I know that chapter of I Corinthians really well, but I needed to be reminded that love does bear all things. It works through every hardship, every struggle, every situation as well as the sweet times life has in store. That got me thinking of Charity-the true love of Christ. That unconditional love not just for those that are lovable, but the ones that are difficult to love. The ones who hurt us, the ones that are inconsiderate, the ones that make life difficult to enjoy. In a way those people are the ones that need love more than anyone else. It's so good to know that our Savior's true love can enfold us like a blanket and carry us through the dark times and help us love the unlovable.
So when you read about love in I Corinthians 13, try replacing the words charity or love with your name. We can do all the right things and go through the motions of doing amazing deeds, but without love - for everyone- it is worth nothing.
1 Corinthians 13
1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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