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Tell em, Jacques.
Looking for that real love nowadays. The kind that's bought with a price, that costs you something. Keep the pretty words, give me the sweat. Love is sacrifice, it's work. The most beautiful labor this world has to offer.
Better yet, just peep these verses from Corinthians. They say far more eloquently in a few passages what it would take me tomes to convey:
1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If 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. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 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. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11 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 childish ways behind me. 12 Now 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.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Sounds wonderful. Time to start striving for it. Also, I think I may start posting new pieces up here, haikus at least. It's been a truly inspirational couple of weeks.
Thank you for this, many of us have forgotten what it is to truly love and the responsibility it brings... The same could be said about the way "hate" is being haphazardly thrown around as of late.
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i really appreciated this, the video and the scripture. i always forget which lines exactly Lauryn Hill writes "Tell Him" from. And, I could just listen to this man speak for days, especially since it seems like he almost doesn't want to.
ReplyDeletei loveeee this chapter in Corinthians. it def puts things into perspective.
ReplyDeleteForest Whitaker quotes the later verses in the Great Debater.
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