1 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! 9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10 But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless. 11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. 13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

when we think of love even from the time we are small girls... it was about getting married to prince charming.. about being happy ever after.. about someone thinking we are the queen and treating us like that.. someone spending their lives to make us happy.... yet we get into love.. .and it is nothing like what we imagined... many times we equate sex with love so we give ourselves sexually yet we don't find love... most of us would say we have not found love like what we thought it was supposed to be...

I think the trouble is our focus... we tend to focus on what we will get in return... I will love you forever if you love me back... I will stay with you if you treat me like I am a queen... I am thinking... when God speaks of love... it is not love we receive... it is instead love we give.... sometimes the only love we will ever receive could be the love from God... is that enough.... can we receive God's love and in turn give the love He has shed for us to someone else... even if we never receive it back... I believe that is the true call of Love... to give of ourselves endlessly and realize we may never receive what we have given in return from people... only from God...