the journaling is excerpts from 1 corinthians 13 (the message). love never gives up. love cares more for others than for self. love doesnt want what it doesnt have. love doesnt strut, doesnt have a swelled head, doesnt force itself on others, isnt always me first, doesnt fly off the handle, doesnt keep score of the sins of others, doesnt revel when others grovel, takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, puts up with anything, trusts god always, always looks for the best, never looks back, but keeps going to the end. love never dies. we don't yet see things clearly. we're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. but it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! we'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as god sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us! but for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: trust steadily in god, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. and the best of the three is love.

love birds by emily powers