Love I Corinthians 13 Style

by Sharon Jaynes©
<p style="text-align: center;">If I decorate my house perfectly with lovely plaid bows, strands of twinkling lights,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and shiny glass balls,but do not show love to my family - I’m just another decorator.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas cookies, preparing gourmet meals,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtime, but do not show love to my family - I’m just another cook.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">If I work at the soup kitchen, carol in the nursing home,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and give all that I have to charity, but do not show love to my family - It profits me nothing.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">If I trim the spruce with shimmering angels and crocheted snowflakes, attend a myriad of holiday parties,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and sing in the choir’s contada but do not focus on Christ, I have missed the point.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Love stops the cooking to hug the child.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Love sets aside the decorating to kiss the husband.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Love is kind, though harried and tired.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Love doesn’t envy another home that has coordinated Christmas china and table linens.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Love doesn’t yell at the kids to get out of your way.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Love doesn’t give, only to those who are able to give in return, but rejoices in giving to those who can’t.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Love never fails.  Video games will break; pearl necklaces will be lost;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">golf clubs will rust.  But giving the gift of love will endure.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">by Sharon Jaynes©</p>