Include Love on Your Path

Do no harm.  Know you have done well in all things throughout your day.  Be able to look in the mirror and like the person looking back for the way you have treated others and the decisions you have made.

Worship your God, in your own way, without violence, with respect and tolerance for others as they worship in their own way.

Find the path that God has set forth for you.  Travel your path in peaceful discovery of all life’s wonders we have been privileged to experience due to God's grace.

Most of all, love.  Love like there is no tomorrow.  Love your enemies, your friends, and yourself.

The Bible I love gives me life lessons that are free of religious overtones.  Verse that holds truth which can transcend cultural, religious, and political boundaries.  It is unfortunate that most truth is easily recognized, has the ability to bring peace throughout the world, but we seem to have difficulty getting behind as a species. 

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only 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 faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.  If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 

Love is patient, love is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, 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 hopes, always preserves. 

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 completeness comes, what is in part 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 the ways of childhood behind me.  For now we see only a 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 all is love. 

 -- 1 Corinthians 13