SELF EVALUATION AND CHECKLIST OF LOVE - (1 Corinthians 13:4-13)

SELF EVALUATION AND CHECKLIST OF LOVE (1 Corinthians 13:4-13)
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them... (Gen. 1,27)
The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. (1 Jn. 1, 48)
By equation, if God created us in His image, and God is love, Then we are Love...
Love in the Bible	My way of living Love?
Love Is Patient
Love Is Kind
It Does Not Envy
It Does Not Boast
It Is Not Proud
It Does Not Dishonour Others
It Is Not Self-Seeking
It Is Not Easily Angered
It Keeps No Record Of Wrongs
Love Does Not Delight In Evil
Rejoices With The Truth
It Always Protects
Always Trusts
Always Hopes
Always Perseveres
Love Never Fails
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Times go by Turns

There is an appointed time for everything...a time to weep, and a time to laugh; (Ecl. 3, 1). Good and bad alternate in any human life. Some would say that joy and pain balance out over the course of the years. The poet St. Robert Southwell puts it better in his poem, "Times go by Turns" (1561-1595) - that "The saddest birds a season find to sing..." Very often we find that just allowing the passage of some time gives us a better perspective on today's worries or allows God to do us good.  Let's look at the message of the poem:

Times go by Turns by Robert Southwell.

THE lopped tree in time may grow again,
Most naked plants renew both fruit and flower;
The sorest wight may find release of pain,
The driest soil suck in some moist'ning shower;
Times go by turns and chances change by course,
From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

The sea of Fortune doth not ever flow,
She draws her favours to the lowest ebb;
Her tides hath equal times to come and go,
Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web;
No joy so great but runneth to an end,
No hap so hard but may in fine amend.

Not always fall of leaf nor ever spring,
No endless night yet not eternal day;
The saddest birds a season find to sing,
The roughest storm a calm may soon allay:
Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,
That man may hope to rise, yet fear to fall.

A chance may win that by mischance was lost;
The net that holds no great, takes little fish;
In some things all, in all things none are crost,
Few all they need, but none have all they wish;
Unmeddled joys here to no man befall:
Who least, hath some; who most, hath never all.