Love is Patient

 If there is only one message to take away from the Bible let it be this one: 

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.  It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never ends."

Prior to that message there are 3 statements:

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal."

"And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing."

"If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing."

Love is something we sing about, ache for and search for our entire lives.  We admire the people that stay together through thin and thick, we write poems about the love we have to our children, country, mothers, fathers, families, God...

And then we forget...what love really is...

Love is patient and kind... There is no "ego" in that feeling, there is no desire to possess or be right, there is no anger or pride, there is only kindness, the type of kindness that makes you understand that we are all human and the people we love are human too; and something that you may know and understand your loved one may not know yet, your loved one may not have experienced it yet; so love is patient.  We patiently wait for our loved ones to gather greater understanding of the world around us and join us in our kind, patient dwelling we call love. 

As parents we put heart and soul into our children.  We are not perfect, no one is, but we all try for our children to be the best role models we can be while we ourselves are still children of the world and of this young species we call humanity.  We are all still learning...  Some of us live the whole lifetime and still have a lot to learn.

"You can be whoever you want!", - they tell us when we are children...  Yes, you can.  But, I'd rather my kids be who they should be: good people, not just "whoever".  And I know that's a lot to ask, but I'd rather no matter what my children choose to do for living for them to choose to hang on to the kindness of their hearts and to have it guide them towards the right person to be. 

Love is patient and kind...  And I will patiently wait for my children to learn to love and to be patient and kind.  Life gives us many examples of relationships...and throughout 2 continents, and many relationships I have witnessed it's those where people don't fight each other, love being together, laugh together and support each other are the once I admired. 

Were they perfect?  No, nobody is, but they gave it all they had, they kept loving each other through many ups and downs, they let each other grow while together and became one.  And that is my definition of a family.  Building a family requires acceptance, encouragement and understanding.  We not so much become one and the same but we expand the horizons of knowledge and acceptance of the one as a family.  

I think our society is starting to forget the importance of the family.  One thing is to expand your family by inviting more members in, another thing is to separate the existing family to force upon a new artificially created unit and force the children to accept this new environment.  There is no love in the desire to hurt.  There is no caring in the desire to punish.  There is no kindness in forceful separations. 

And it is in the best interest of our society to stop separating families that want to be together.  Support Parental Rights and support DFPS reform.  We have to end unnecessary separations of children with their parents. Love is patient and kind...

 https://www.change.org/petitiontolife

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