The words “I love you” hold out the promise of the deepest relationship one person can share with another. So to say “I love you” implies a certain risk, a vulnerablility. We’ve all experienced that kind of love that raised our expectations, and then dissolved them and left us wounded and bewildered.

    The Bible speaks of an entirely different kind of love in I Corinthians 13: “It’s patient, it’s kind, it’s not jealous or boastful, not arrogant or rude. Love doesn’t insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it doesn’t rejoice in wrong. Love,” it says, “bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

    Let’s make the rest of the day work a little better. Let’s try out real Christian love.