Your Spiritual Journey
Love
Love
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
Love is many things, but one thing we often overlook is that it can be time dependent. Donna bought a box of great big strawberries last week and promptly put them in the fridge. We both knew they were there and looked forward to enjoying them as part of some luscious dessert that one of us would make.
Time went by and every day that passed seemed to present other food choices that were at the top of the list. Either one of us could have prepped them to make turning them into a dessert an easier proposition, but neither of us did. Eventually the beautiful fruit started looking less and less attractive.
Thankfully before it was too late, I saw that some of the berries had really started to decay to the point where the whole box was at risk of needing to be thrown out. The prep work to save them was much less enjoyable than what would have been involved had it been done on day one. Still, it was worth putting in the effort to restore the possibility of having something nice to share together.
In the same way, repairing a damaged relationship that we’ve failed to take care of for too long, is much more difficult than taking those little steps every day that are needed to keep things healthy.
I pray that we can see that our love can decay with time if we don’t put in the work to keep it fresh.
Andy
