Real love endures anything and lasts forever.
This does not mean that Love puts up with everything, but it does endure. Time can not quench it, nor can hell's assault diminish it.
Love is always ready to respond and does not protect itself from the next rejection.
Love does not figure out how to get its own way, but considers what is best.
Love does not gossip.
Love is not afraid to declare itself.
Love is infinite and always expands into the place allowed.
Lord Jesus, teach me to love others as you love me. I can't understand how you could love me, but you called me to yourself, revealed yourself to me and rescued me. It was Love to which I responded.
I want you to be able to love through me. Please do whatever is needed in the deepest places of my heart in order to make me more like you.
Though I sometimes resist, I now choose in prayer to submit to the surgical knife of the Lover of My Soul.
My Lord and my God.