Something to Consider this Holiday Season

Sooo Holidays are all about Love: showing Love, buying things for people you Love, spending time with those you Love etc. And I get kinda sad around this time of year because I feel most alone during the Holidays, but this year I think I am going to really make an effort to show the people I Love just how much they actually mean to me and how important they are. I was inspired by a passage I read this morning that everyone likes to pull apart and only use bits and pieces of but is actually much more beautiful as a full verse. So here it is:
1 Corinthians 13
Love

1If I speak in the languages of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If 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. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8Love 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. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a (wo)man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now 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.

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love