These Three Remain

Faith is a gift.
Hope is full of wonder.
Love is always becoming flesh.

Faith is a tiny present you slip onto God’s overflowing table.
Hope is letting yourself be vulnerable one more time.
Love is coming to know the fullness of another.

Faith is what you give to the God who has everything.
Faith is the choice you must make when you face
     the darkness.
Faith is an unthinkable extravagance offered to a
     seductive possibility.

Hope is the grieving and joy of letting yourself trust again.
Hope is the irresistible urge to lay your hand on a thing
     that shouldn’t be touched.
Hope is the throb in your heart when the voice in your gut
     is all you can hear.

Love is the startling awareness that someone else is
     as important as you.
Love is the sum total of what you will give to make
     another person happy.
Love often hurts and always takes a long time.

Faith is a desperate scramble at the edge of meaning.
Hope is trusting in something too good to be true.
Love, like faith, is unto death.

Faith is born of choosing.
Hope is like a child.
Love is the flesh beneath it all.

“And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love.
But the greatest of these is love.”   
                                                 St. Paul

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I Corinthians 13

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