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Many hostesses are overwhelmed when setting a formal dinner table, however just remember to try and make it as clear as possible for your guests. If they feel comfortable at your table cheap air max 97 , you will as well. With a properly set table that functions without confusion, everyone can focus on the meal being presented and the great company that surrounds it. Now many confuse love with admiration and most commonly sexual lust, now days the younger generation driven by their wild hormones more often than not confuse their sexual desires with love, even some of the older generation fall into the same trap, I suppose everyone at some stage or the other confuses love for what it actually is.
There is only one place in the world where you will actually find out what love is and that is in the the word of God, the bible.
Lets have a look at what love really is.
Taken from the message bible
1Co 13:4 -7 Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self.
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Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel cheap air max 90 , Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.
Can there be a more clearer explanation of love than that!
The bible contains many insights into love but none more striking than the love of Jesus Christ for us cheap nike air max shoes , so deeply did he love us that he died for us, so deeply does God love us that he gave his only son for us to be beaten shattered and torn. would any father in the world stand by and allow this to happen to one child so that the others may live? I thank God that he loves us so much.
From the above scripture you can see what love truly is, personally I believe its bigger than any of us can imagine more powerful than any of us can conceive, but the ultimate goal that we should strive for in our relationships with our children, spouses friends, family and most of all our God.
Doesn't force itself on others Isn't always "me first," Doesn't fly off the handle
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others
Doesn't revel when others grovel
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth
Puts up with anything
Trusts God always
Always looks for the best
Never looks back, But keeps going to the end
This is what love is!
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