Hello, Monday. I'm so happy to see you. Really, I really am. I wish I could have slept in a little more, but it's ok. I know one day I'll miss waking up to a house full of kids that I've got to taxi all over the place. And I mean that with all of my heart.
We did a LOT this weekend, as usual, and I'm grateful for it. And on Sunday, we brought it to a nice little close. Nope, we didn't watch much of the Super Bowl. I'm from Louisiana, so I kindof chose to boycott it. And because I didn't feel like making football snacks. It's the main reason we watch it. We usually make sausage puffs, tiny weenies in BBQ sauce, some sort of chip & dip, and whatever else everyone requests. But this year, no snacks. I'm so sorry, kids - I just wasn't up for the clean up. And this year we had to watch it because Joe got extra credit for writing down his favorite commercials. So we watched about 10 minutes of it. That's it. And I hear we didn't miss much. No bigs, we left the room & de-cluttered our spaces. Again. I think Lilly won the Super Bowl of getting rid of clutter. YEAH!!!!
But before the didn't watch Super Bowl, we decided to go to mass. Same old getting ready routine - pick out clothes, eat at least an hour before, comb hair, brush the teeth. No one wants to smell anyone else's church breath. I don't know why it smells like that, but it does. I think the whispering has some sort of magical power that yields a certain flavor of halitosis. So I stand with my foot tapping and wait for everyone to "floss, brush, and rinse" IN THAT ORDER. But once we got there & settled, it's all worth the effort. Every. Single. Time. (Especially when there's a bonus restaurant meal after - yay, Chili's!) Anyway, yesterday's second reading at church was surely, like Father Tom said, one of the most memorized scriptures out there. It's used at almost all weddings, and it calls my attention for sure. It brings back sweet memories when the world was mostly ahead of us, and we were starting a tremendous chapter of our lives.
It's this one: First Corinthians 12:31- 13:13. We all know it or have heard it at least once.
Here it is:
"Set your mind on the higher gifts. And now I am going to put before you the best way of all.
Though I command languages both human and angelic -- if I speak without love, I am no more than a gong booming or a cymbal clashing.
And though I have the power of prophecy, to penetrate all mysteries and knowledge, and though I have all the faith necessary to move mountains -- if I am without love, I am nothing.
Though I should give away to the poor all that I possess, and even give up my body to be burned -- if I am without love, it will do me no good whatever.
Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited,
it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offense or store up grievances.
Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but finds its joy in the truth.
It is always ready to make allowances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes.
Love never comes to an end. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if tongues, they will fall silent; and if knowledge, it will be done away with.
For we know only imperfectly, and we prophesy imperfectly; but once perfection comes, all imperfect things will be done away with.
When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and see things as a child does, and think like a child; but now that I have become an adult, I have finished with all childish ways.
Now we see only reflections in a mirror, mere riddles, but then we shall be seeing face to face. Now I can know only imperfectly; but then I shall know just as fully as I am myself known.
As it is, these remain: faith, hope and love, the three of them; and the greatest of them is love."
I'm afraid really can't offer much interpretation on this reading - I think it is so perfectly scripted. The only thing I can offer is how I have understood it through the years. When I was younger, it was a very optimistic reading. Something I thought I grasped, but never really offered. Now when I hear it, it applies to so much more than a starry-eyed girl's hope for the future, and my heart fills beyond the brim. I hope I've practiced it as best as I could. I really did try. And hearing it again still brings hope, but from the downhill slope. As I age, the meaning deepens to a level that is beyond me.
And I realize that Love IS
the answer. To everything.
Love slows us down and gently nudges us, as if to say, "Wake Up. It truly is this Simple."
We did a LOT this weekend, as usual, and I'm grateful for it. And on Sunday, we brought it to a nice little close. Nope, we didn't watch much of the Super Bowl. I'm from Louisiana, so I kindof chose to boycott it. And because I didn't feel like making football snacks. It's the main reason we watch it. We usually make sausage puffs, tiny weenies in BBQ sauce, some sort of chip & dip, and whatever else everyone requests. But this year, no snacks. I'm so sorry, kids - I just wasn't up for the clean up. And this year we had to watch it because Joe got extra credit for writing down his favorite commercials. So we watched about 10 minutes of it. That's it. And I hear we didn't miss much. No bigs, we left the room & de-cluttered our spaces. Again. I think Lilly won the Super Bowl of getting rid of clutter. YEAH!!!!
But before the didn't watch Super Bowl, we decided to go to mass. Same old getting ready routine - pick out clothes, eat at least an hour before, comb hair, brush the teeth. No one wants to smell anyone else's church breath. I don't know why it smells like that, but it does. I think the whispering has some sort of magical power that yields a certain flavor of halitosis. So I stand with my foot tapping and wait for everyone to "floss, brush, and rinse" IN THAT ORDER. But once we got there & settled, it's all worth the effort. Every. Single. Time. (Especially when there's a bonus restaurant meal after - yay, Chili's!) Anyway, yesterday's second reading at church was surely, like Father Tom said, one of the most memorized scriptures out there. It's used at almost all weddings, and it calls my attention for sure. It brings back sweet memories when the world was mostly ahead of us, and we were starting a tremendous chapter of our lives.
It's this one: First Corinthians 12:31- 13:13. We all know it or have heard it at least once.
Here it is:
"Set your mind on the higher gifts. And now I am going to put before you the best way of all.
Though I command languages both human and angelic -- if I speak without love, I am no more than a gong booming or a cymbal clashing.
And though I have the power of prophecy, to penetrate all mysteries and knowledge, and though I have all the faith necessary to move mountains -- if I am without love, I am nothing.
Though I should give away to the poor all that I possess, and even give up my body to be burned -- if I am without love, it will do me no good whatever.
Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited,
it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offense or store up grievances.
Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but finds its joy in the truth.
It is always ready to make allowances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes.
Love never comes to an end. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if tongues, they will fall silent; and if knowledge, it will be done away with.
For we know only imperfectly, and we prophesy imperfectly; but once perfection comes, all imperfect things will be done away with.
When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and see things as a child does, and think like a child; but now that I have become an adult, I have finished with all childish ways.
Now we see only reflections in a mirror, mere riddles, but then we shall be seeing face to face. Now I can know only imperfectly; but then I shall know just as fully as I am myself known.
As it is, these remain: faith, hope and love, the three of them; and the greatest of them is love."
I'm afraid really can't offer much interpretation on this reading - I think it is so perfectly scripted. The only thing I can offer is how I have understood it through the years. When I was younger, it was a very optimistic reading. Something I thought I grasped, but never really offered. Now when I hear it, it applies to so much more than a starry-eyed girl's hope for the future, and my heart fills beyond the brim. I hope I've practiced it as best as I could. I really did try. And hearing it again still brings hope, but from the downhill slope. As I age, the meaning deepens to a level that is beyond me.
And I realize that Love ISthe answer. To everything.
Love slows us down and gently nudges us, as if to say, "Wake Up. It truly is this Simple."
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