Love Like You Mean It
By: Betsy St. Amant Haddox Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. - 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 As a wife, sometimes the instructions on how to love in 1 Corinthians 13 can seem a little overwhelming. During an engagement period, you think, No problem! Love is easy. I'm obsessed with this guy. Nothing he does could ever gross me out or upset me. He's as close to perfect as it gets! Our marriage will be a breeze. Everything is pulsing hearts and excitement while you're planning a wedding, right? Being patient and kind and honoring and selfless is simple when you're on a constant, mushy adrenaline rush. Then the wedding comes and goes, the honeymoon comes and goes (except for perhaps the lingering credit card statement!) and you start thinking, Maybe he's not perfect. In fact, a few things he does truly annoy me. But it's okay! We got this! I can ignore it. Then a little more time passes, and you start realizing that living with another flawed person, dying to self, and loving like Christ loved the church is entirely impossible. | 
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