Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. [1 Corinthians 13:4-6 (NLT)]

Fill us with your love, O Lord. Teach us to pay more attention to your positive message. Guide us so that we focus less on the shortcomings of those around us and more on their worth. Please, curb our critical spirits and remind us daily that we, too, have many faults! If you love us, with all our defects, we can surely find a way to love others as well.

Dear friends, we must love each other because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God. The person who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, because God is love. [1 John 4:7-8 (GW)]