Last years 4th of July ended with Ashleigh calling me crying because Josh was outside her house calling. We called the police and her Dad spent the whole night up trying to hunt him down. The 4th was one of her favorite holidays. 2 years ago we spent it together as a family. I can still see her dancing and singing with her little nieces. She was glorious, and beautiful. When she was little we lived right across the street from the fireworks show in Denison. Each year the whole block got together and BarBQued thru the afternoon and the kids played in the park across the street and at night the fireworks would start. She was Always dancing and singing thru them.
So the picture I'm posting tonight is of that wonderful little girl I knew who danced amongst the fireworks. It is actually a collage the she made when she was 15 and taped to her closet door of her favorite moments in life. And I will post her favorite passage for the Bible, all about love......I love you, Ashleigh. Tonight you will see all the fireworks this holiday, I and hope you are teaching Patience to sing and dance amongst them.....
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13
So the picture I'm posting tonight is of that wonderful little girl I knew who danced amongst the fireworks. It is actually a collage the she made when she was 15 and taped to her closet door of her favorite moments in life. And I will post her favorite passage for the Bible, all about love......I love you, Ashleigh. Tonight you will see all the fireworks this holiday, I and hope you are teaching Patience to sing and dance amongst them.....
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13
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