fuzzie navels or C'est la charité!

Hairy belly buttons - uch - ok, so not so cute. *laugh*
What I'm thinking about is how much I love my friends. I LOVE YOU GUYS!! *warm fuzzies*
I am also thinking about those that I don't particularly "feel" the vibes for - people that irritate me, have annoying habits that make feel like I am developing a nervous tic when I'm around them, and those that are just plain 'ol hateful.....and I am remembering that I'm supposed to LOVE them as well. So...just how does it "look" to love someone you don't particularly like? And I don't mean in a cheapo, plastic, barbie smile kinda way, either. I'm talking genuine 1 Cor. 13 kinda love. I mean, after all - it is an action word, eh? And is it any different when you aren't "liking" someone you do love...what does that "look" like? Interesting that a lot of the things I think of that "show" love can be done for others with out any love in my heart at all.......

1 Corinthiens 13:13

13Maintenant donc ces trois choses demeurent: la foi, l'espérance, la charité; mais la plus grande de ces choses, c'est la charité.

1 Corinthians 13 (Wycliffe New Testament)

1 If I speak with tongues of men and of angels, and I have not charity, I am made as brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling.

2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries, and all knowing [and all knowing, or science], and if I have all faith, so that I move hills from their place [so that I bear over hills from one place to another], and I have not charity, I am nought.

3 And if I part all my goods into the meats of poor men, and if I betake my body, so that I burn, and if I have not charity, it profiteth to me nothing.

4 Charity is patient, it is benign; charity envieth not, it doeth not wickedly, it is not blown [it is not in-blown with pride],

5 it is not covetous [of worships], it seeketh not those things that be his own [it seeketh not those things that be her own], it is not stirred to wrath, it thinketh not evil,

6 it joyeth not on wickedness, but it joyeth together to truth; [it joyeth not in wickedness, forsooth it joyeth together with truth;]

7 it suffereth all things, it believeth all things, it hopeth all things, it sustaineth all things.

8 Charity falleth never down, whether prophecies shall be voided, either languages shall cease, either science shall be destroyed [whether prophecies shall be voided, or languages shall cease, or science shall be destroyed].

9 For a part we know, and a part we prophesy; [For of part we know, and of part we prophesy;]

10 but when that shall come that is perfect, that thing that is of part shall be voided.

11 When I was a little child, I spake as a little child, I understood as a little child, I thought as a little child; but when I was made a man, I voided those things that were of a little child.

12 And we see now [Forsooth we see now] by a mirror in darkness, but then face to face; now I know of part, but then I shall know, as [and] I am known.

13 And now dwelleth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the most of these is charity.


(Yes..I love to see the Scriptures in other languages and translations - sometimes it offers a new perspective! )