"Well how much was the ticket?"
"I don't know, I just gave it to my Mom"  

"I was going to, but it was hard"

"It was kindness week at my school...And I didn't"

"What if a mute person has no hands"


Friday, May 30

If I had emotions, I would be embarrassed that people read this

Name: Chad
Scripture: II Samuel 4-5; Psalms 64-65; I Corinthians 13
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. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

OAP: I got distracted with implications and then fell asleep typing this up last night, so I thought I would post it.
The partial shall fade away, yet love is eternal. So there is a fullness about love, a completeness or a rightness. As much as this is a description of God, in the vein of "God is love", or a definition used by christian kids to claim love, I read this more as a...I'm not sure, but not either of those.
This doesn't read like alot of scripture. It deals with the fleeting. Yet through it it goes into the eternal and truth. Maybe it is less conditional, not "love never ends" as in if it ends, then it wasn't love, but rather the goodness, the joy in truth, patience, kindness, those are the unbreakable. Then all the others, the fleeting, are breakable and will pass away. This may just be a "we win" passage. I don't feel like typing out all of the implications that are bouncing around in my head. It is a different understanding of the truth, or at least a new layer of it. For me.
I just read this over fairly quickly, there are alot of major gaps that I ignored because I understood and didn't need to explain. Maybe I will come back, it is worth fleshing out simply because the new layer of truth becomes more cemented and tangible for me. I may write about it eventually.

Is my unwillingness to delve deeper into this now going to hamper the finishing? I am sure I could talk myself into it, having a paper stored for Harville next year, that seems lie the epitome of nerdiness. Why wouldn't it be enough for me just to do? Oops. It's not like I would do it for that reason. Fine, I won't. It is enough, you are enough. OK, now that that is out of the way, back to the question. Ok, when?

3 comments:

josh said...

dude thats so crazy, i didnt even know that was the soap reading last night but i flipped to it randomly and liked it and memorized it.

Old_Guy said...

If I had emotions, I would have delighted in reading what you wrote... and what you didn't. Oh... wait! I DO! (and I did!)
-The Old Guy

Ryan said...

Do you really have no emotions?