In the first letter to the Corinthians, Paul describes the qualities of the gift of love: patient, kind, not envious, boastful or arrogant, not insisting on its own way, not irritable or resentful, rejoicing in the truth, not in wrongdoing. Love bears, believes, hopes and endures all things. Nevertheless, we are living in a divided world, where labels reduce us to “we” who are vehemently against “them”. It seems that love is in limited supply, or it is fleeting.
Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, in her book Fierce Love, invites us to “make fierce love real” by showing kindness and affection wildly:
“In any relationship, fierce love causes us to cross boundaries and borders to discover one another, to support one another, to heal one another. When we do this, when we go crazy with affection, and offer wild kindness to our neighbor across the street or across the globe, we make a new kind of space between us. We make space for discovery and curiosity, for learning and growing. We make space for sharing stories and being changed by what we share.”
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