These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Loving Character

"4 Love is patient and kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude.
It does not demand its own way.
It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
6 It does not rejoice about injustice
but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
7 Love never gives up,
never loses faith,
is always hopeful,
and endures through every circumstance."
(I Corinthians 13:4-7, NLT)

Love is patient to a fault
and kind to everyone.
Loving hearts have no Jealousy Vault.
Boastful souls are not His son.
The prideful, rude are not Earth's salt.
The demands of Self are never done.

Irritatable hearts can't love
for irritation sees just me.
Records are for God Above.
From wrongings, I'd be free.

The JOY of Love is Just enough.
It's glad when Right is done
for Love finds JOY in truthful stuff,
and Truth, that wins is One.

Love will try and try, again.
Love keeps its faith fore'er.
Love hopes, until it fin'lly wins,
endures from here to there.

by Jay O’Toole
on July 14th, 2020