I hate to just quote straight verse, but I think I needed a reminder this week.

How often do I lose track of who I am called to be as I listen to everyone else's junk? It is so easy to compromise...

Okay, I'm not having some crisis or dilemma; I was just thinking. I'll show my true lack of memorization, but you remember the verses that talk about a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies and gold (or something to that degree). I know that over the years with our changing culture that may look slightly different, but the basics are still true!

I'm so rambling, and I apologize.

I don't want to get caught up in things that won't matter 20 years down the road. I want to find that place of growth as an individual, where I'm learning to be me while still truly loving the people who God has placed in my life.

Blah, blah, blah...I know - but come on its my blog to vent as I want ;p.

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1st Corinthians Chapter 13

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels (I want to meet someone who can speak in both), but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing (wow...).

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy (how many times do I say unkind things to or about someone - even if it's true!). Love doesn't brag, is not proud, doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil (I think this part is neat. So often we think badly about someone because of what they've done, but to take NO account, I mean to just not even let it effect our thinking about that person at all!); doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things (What a reminder that in our greatest weakness he is strong through us - I could never endure all things with out Him). Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child (I think I still qualify as a child ;-)). Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face (reference to the vail being torn?). Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.