We all have our different strengths and weaknesses…and for some of us mercy comes a bit easier than it does for others. (Some of us struggle with it quite a bit.) It’s been a long time since I’ve taken a spiritual gifts test so I thought I’d take one and see where I ranked on the gift of Mercy before writing this post. Well, I took three and got three …
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Marriage Monday – Long-Suffering
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 You knew that in a series on marriage that passage would come …
Marriage Monday ~ Kind-Hearted
“Kind” is defined as friendly, generous, understanding, charitable, considerate, forbearing, tolerant and agreeable (among other things.) That’s a rather long list, isn’t it? It does seem a little daunting. I do think they all have a common factor — love. Would you agree? People, all of us, tend to be motivated mostly selfishly, it’s built into us. The first thing we think about is what we want to do, or …