a small view into my life _ by _ mark collins

1 Corinthians 13: 1 - 13
The Message Bible

1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2 If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. 3 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.

4 Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut, Doesn't have a swelled head, 5 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, 6 Doesn't revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, 7 Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.

8 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. 9 We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. 10 But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled. 11 When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good. 12 We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us! 13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
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the greatest thing you can have is love, it amazes me that out of everything that is good God says the greatest is love. in fact He says without love you have nothing.

if you follow this blog you know i am in love with a beautiful girl who loves me in return, she says she loves me more than i love her and that just amazes me that she could have that kind of love; because i love her very much.
i'm learning (slowly) about what God wants in my life and my relationship with her, i still have allot to learn and i'm so blessed to have somone who loves me through all my screw ups. Jen if you're reading this, I love you.

also for those who follow my blog you notice i havn't posted in over two months. i've been very busy with life, college classes and also video stuff for church. also in the works is preperations for recording and producing a dvd of a local play 'A Christmas Carol'. finding cameras and other equipment, and setting up mark collins productions. http://markcollinsproductions.com/ is coming soon. so i'm excited about all that is happening there.

and! i'll be graduating in the spring! three more classes and i'm done.
looking forward to moving on with life.

and now i'm going to give my attention to and talk to my love.