Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled. 1 Corinthians 13:8

This verses profound truth rings even further…. Hope will end, faith will no longer be needed, integrity will find its last day, and wisdom will cease. When the promise is answered and the Kingdom restored….the one act that will never stop is love.

This last Sunday, my wife and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary. I have to say, it went better than anniversary number one. Last year, we sat quietly in my parents house and I handed my wife her gift, a small diamond circle necklace with a thin chain. Our joy and thankfulness of our marriage was overshadowed this day by sadness. The truth is, life had played a cruel joke on us. Sitting there in the room, we weren’t getting dressed up to go out to a nice dinner but instead we had all black attire on, as my father’s funeral was only two hours away. We told each other to make this day a celebration of my father’s life and the example he set for us as a father and a husband. And although it was not the way I envisioned my first anniversary, the celebration of this great man was amazing and a reminder of what true love is all about. One by one people in the church stood up to comment on his life, and one common theme came out of everyone’s mouth: The amount of love he poured out on his family and gave to his wife. It wasn’t the money he made or the works that he did, or even the faith that he had. It was the love that he shared that will ripple in my family from generation to generation. The stories that will be told are the small things he did to make my mom feel like a princess, the detailed everyday love he showed his children like spending all day carving the best pinewood derby car, or teaching us how to water-ski after numerous failures. His love carries on in the way I treat my wife and someday nurture my children. His love lives in my mom’s strength and joy which she proclaims is a result of being loved unselfishly by a Godly man for 35 years. This is the love the bible talks about….the love that keeps giving and keeps spreading. What an amazing truth this is to grasp and put into action. You possess an abundant love to give and to receive. Remember this as you go home to your wife today, or see your children, or as you pray for your future wife. Pray that God keeps this lesson fresh on your mind and in your actions. The fact is, you will be remembered for how you love people, so make the everyday love count.

Signed on the bottom of our anniversary card from my mother this year it read “ Love, Mom and (dad)�. It struck me as I saw his name there in parenthesis for the first time. It really is true, he is no longer with us in the flesh….but his love I feel everyday.

Send This To A Friend