Corinthians 13 is a good summary of the nature of love. But because of the hostility coming from some religious leaders towards those whose life style choices and ideas make them uncomfortable; its time to pursue clarity on the nature of love. Loving one another and expressing that love correctly comes before all else; including religious doctrine and politics.
Love cares.
Love’s good.
Love forgives.
Love is patient.
Love comforts.
Love welcomes.
Love brings peace.
Love is LGBTQ blind.
Love listens carefully.
Love accepts life’s flow.
Love isn’t so sure it knows.
Love is often spontaneous,
Love seeks nothing for itself.
Love nurtures and offers solace.
Love sacrifices self to achieve peace.
Loves see humor in its flaws and faults.
Love quietly lets emotional storms pass.
Love releases, empowers and encourages.
Love ignores every obstacle to manifest itself.
Love rejoices in truth; it hides no dark secrets.
Love wants a one on one relationship with you.
Love seeks to build unity and achieve harmony.
Love is noble, needs nothing; offers everything.
Love’s guidance leads to greater peace and joy.
Love appreciates every effort to accomplish good.
Love is quick to apologize; it has no ego to defend.
Love advises, “Follow your heart, Listen to the Spirit!”
Love from the divine is often expressed through miracles.
Love hears one out, then offers guidance and suggestions.
Miracles frequently accompany the experience of God’s love.
Love changes those around without trying and without effort.
Love resolves issues as they appear through patient reasoning.
Love reassures with real caring when a relationship has to be altered.
Love exercised against the temptation to fear, shows it’s divine origins.
Love may create great differences to challenge and help our love grow.
Love never severs a relationship; but seeks to repair and strengthen them.
Love may use actions like divorce as a way to alter and improve a relationship.
Love doesn’t just tolerate, it embraces differences and understands them as natural.
Love’s forgiveness: grace, like Jesus exemplified, is immediate, complete, and absolute.
Love thrives on, and delights in, dissimilarity; it requires them to grow, to stretch its reach.
Love accepts all spiritual, religious, political, cultural, linguistic, moral, and gender differences.
Love may hold back truth for the good of one’s growth. But once one is prepared, its eager to share.
Love listens and may offer good counsel; but advises, “Follow your heart, Trust in God, Obey the Holy Spirit.”
Love from God is rapture; its beyond description. The residue of that experience has to be share with all around.
Love of God is the Pearl of Great Price; no earthly experience compares. All real mystics seek that love.
With the exception of Jesus; Love doesn’t say, “Follow me, Trust me, Listen to me, Obey me!”
Love doesn’t reject, bully or ostracize people because they act, think and believe differently.
Love doesn’t use religious or worldly authority to bring pain to the lives under that authority.
Love has no use for control techniques like violence, coersion, compulsion, and dominion.
Love doesn’t discriminate or differntiate based on gender, sexual orientation or identity.
Love doesn’t have hubris, isn’t haughty or so sure of itself that it damages relationships.
Love doesn’t seek to accumulate except to share, be lifted up except to lift up others.
Love doesn’t nurture fear or throw up barriers to understanding and acceptance.
Love reassures with acts of real caring when a relationship has to be altered.
Love doesn’t take joy in division, but looks for opportunity to unite.
Love doesn’t seek conflict or pick a fight; but avoids conflict
Love doesn’t make demands; use force or manipulate.
Love doesn’t push on others what it knows.
Love isn’t blind to its own flaws and faults.
Love doesn’t contain, control, or criticize.
Love doesn’t judge and condemn.
Love doesn’t crave attention.
Love doesn’t have to know.
Love causes all evil to flee.
Love is the real miracle.
Love isn’t impatient.
Love has no fear.
The primacy of God’s Love is often ignored by religions and their leaders. It’s preeminenence is intentionally disregarded to deny competitors validity with God, and to control their own constituents. Religions may set Love’s preeminence aside in their doctrines, requirements, rituals, and practices. Heaven’s love is for each one of us; not for a religion. Any doctrine or teaching that denys God’s love or limits it, in any way, may confidently be ruled as Man’s invention.