Proclamation of Love

In today's first reading, 1 Cor: 31-13:13, St. Paul gives his brilliant expose` on love:

Love is patient.
Love is kind.
Love is not jealous.
Love is not pompous.
Love is not inflated.
Love is not rude.
Love does not seek its own interests.
Love is not quick-tempered.
Love does not brood over injuries.
Love does not rejoice over wrongdoing. Love rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails.

When God sends us a Word, it does not return to Him until it completes the task God sent it to do (cf. Is 55:11)! It is a Living Word that cuts to the marrow of our bones, purifying us of all that is not of God (cf. Heb 4:12). God is at work in you and me, fulfilling Paul's message within our being.