LOOOOVE

We had a really good small group tonight. It was the first one so it was kind of awkward.. people werent really talking at first because noone knew each other... but it started to open up after awhile. 

It was actually a really good teaching. We watched this video by rick warren (we are doing 40 days of community) and it was all about love and how it is the greatest commandment. We read all of 1 Corinthians 13.. and its really interesting because we hear part of that all the time... at weddings, at funerals, in greeting cards- ya know that love is patient, love is kind etc that whole verse. What we dont hear (at least i havent really) is whats before that verse... hold on maybe i can google it and paste it in here...

¹If I speak in the tongues^{a]" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0.5em; ">[a]} 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,^{b]" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0.5em; ">[b]} but have not love, I gain nothing.

I thought that this was so powerful, that its really saying that we can be all these things and still gain nothing. to me it was very eye opening. This is really what Jesus wanted to get across the most... and how many times a day am i rude to other people, or ignore people, or am just too busy or even DONT care to think of other people.... I could probably make a difference if I started loving other people like christ loved us

and the thing is, ive been hearing this my whole life... but now i want to make it more practical. I want to let someone budge me in the grocery line, i want to not litter, i want to send someone a gift when i am thinking of them, i want to listen to people when they are talking, i want to BE NICE to customers i dont like.

Ha i may be going a little too far, but tonight during the meeting i thought it would be cool to get a tattoo of it too... of the word love, to always remind me that that is first... I included a picture of one i found on google :)