Verse of the Day

Today's insight

Notice that Paul does not begin with what love feels like, but with what it does. Love "suffereth long, and is kind" — it holds on and stays gentle at the same time. Then come the quiet refusals: it "envieth not," "vaunteth not itself," "is not puffed up," "seeketh not her own," "is not easily provoked." Love is measured less by its warmth than by what it is willing not to do — not to grab, not to boast, not to keep score, not to assume the worst. That matters today because most of our closest relationships are strained not by great betrayals but by small self-seeking. This is love lived in the ordinary moment: in traffic, in the queue, in the kitchen, in the message you are about to send.

Reflect

Where today will love ask you to give up being right, or being first, or being noticed — and will you?

Prayer

Lord, I want to love like this, but I am often impatient and quick to defend myself. Teach me today to be slow, kind and free of the need to seek my own way. Amen.