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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Love </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>I Corinthians 13 Style</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">by Sharon Jaynes© (used with permission)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">If I decorate my house perfectly with lovely plaid bows, strands of twinkling lights,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">and shiny glass balls,but do not show love to my family - I’m just another decorator.</span></p>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas cookies, preparing gourmet meals,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtime, but do not show love to my family - I’m just another cook.</span></p>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">If I work at the soup kitchen, carol in the nursing home,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">and give all that I have to charity, but do not show love to my family - It profits me nothing.</span></p>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">If I trim the spruce with shimmering angels and crocheted snowflakes, attend a myriad of holiday parties,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">and sing in the choir’s contada but do not focus on Christ, I have missed the point.</span></p>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Love stops the cooking to hug the child.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Love sets aside the decorating to kiss the husband.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Love is kind, though harried and tired.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Love doesn’t envy another home that has coordinated Christmas china and table linens.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Love doesn’t yell at the kids to get out of your way.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Love doesn’t give, only to those who are able to give in return, but rejoices in giving to those who can’t.</span></p>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.</span></p>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Love never fails. </span></p>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Video games will break; pearl necklaces will be lost;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">golf clubs will rust.  But giving the gift of love will endure.</span></p>
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