Day 2: Love’s measure: patient, kind, enduring, and selfless.

True Christian love is measured not by convenience but by the qualities of 1 Corinthians 13—patience, kindness, humility, forgiveness, perseverance—so the challenge is to stop keeping records of wrongs, to let love cover and trust, and to allow the Holy Spirit to put down self and lift up Christ’s love in daily interactions.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (KJV)
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

Reflection: Think of one recent offense you have kept a record of—today, choose one concrete step to release it (write a forgiveness letter you don’t send, pray aloud forgiveness, or make a reconciliation call) and do that step now.