It's all about luuuuuve (love).

Damas y caballeros!

I'm here to reveal something that I've never revealed to anyone before: I'm a lover. I'm just leaving it at that and if the topic comes up in a real conversation with you, we may devulge further, but as for now, I leave it at that.

"Why did you even mention it if you're not going to explain it?" you may be asking me. Well, it's because today's devotion comes from one of the love chapters in the Bible and I got excited to read about the perfect love/agape love that is available to us. That's right, Bible scholars, we're talking about 1 Corintios 13/ 1 Corinthians 13

So the excitement stems from the fact that I know how spectacular true love is and how much I'd like to express it and have it expressed to me. The passage always makes me think of how I can love people better and can be a better example of who God is in my life because I believe that at the end of the day, love makes ALL the difference.

You may be familiar with this part of the passage:

  4Love is pacient

Love is kind

 It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres

4El amor es paciente,

es bondadoso.

El amor no es envidioso ni jactancioso ni orgulloso.

⁵No se comporta con rudeza, no es egoísta, no se enoja fácilmente, no guarda rencor.

⁶ El amor no se deleita en la maldad sino que se regocija con la verdad.

⁷ Todo lo disculpa, todo lo cree, todo lo espera, todo lo soporta.

--And I guess for me, I know how powerful love is when expressing to someone. Love is waaay much more than just the relational between guy and girl deal, it's what one shows to family members, strangers, friends and enemies. I want to be the kind of lover that is described here and knows no bounds and "always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres." But, it'll take God's help and His wisdom.--

 So, as I am here back in the U.S. of A. I will be learning to get used again to my family, advantages and disadvantages, but in all this, I want to show love the way God would have and I gues with a bit of 'Ife' flair.

And you see, I'm a lover and growing up to become a better lover of all peoples.

With much love, peace, and elbow grease,
     Ife 'Quipaya' S.