Love

Even if I speak with many languages of men and heavenly beings, and have not love, I will sound like a harsh noise or nails on a chalk board.

And if I have gifts of divine messages about the future, and comprehend all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

If I bestow all my goods to feed street people, and though I give myself to be a burnt sacrifice, and have not love, it would do nothing for me.

Love bears all hurts, but remains kind; love doesn’t take; love is not prideful, is not self-centered,

It isn’t obnoxious, thinks of others before self, it’s not quickly angered, love has a pure motive;

Takes no joy in sin, but abides in the truth;

Puts its self-last, trusts, hopes, endures.

Love doesn’t fail: Even if all prophecies fail and languages cease; if knowledge is no more. We can be sure of one thing.

We are humans are limited in this life.

But when the perfect comes, then the imperfect will be made whole.

As a little child, I didn’t understand because I was a child. But when I grew up, I understood many things.

While in this life we can’t understand the heavenly things fully. But when we reach the heavenly places, we will know as we are fully known.

Choose faith, hope, and love, but remember, love is the most important.

God, is love. Jesus said, you will know them by this that we have love for each other.

~Marla Shaw O’Neill April 2026

Para – 1 Corinthians 13