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Love Passage for

        Leaders

If I can speak beautifully and can sing like an angel, but

 don’t love others, I sound like a child banging on a piano or a

screeching radio.

If I’m very smart, almost genius, if I can figure out the hardest

math problems and understand sentence diagrams, but

don’t love other’s, I am nothing.

 Love will stand in line and wait its turn.

            Love looks for the good in others.

Love doesn’t always want what others have, and it doesn’t

brag about what it does have.

            Love is polite, even when the other person is rude.

Love doesn’t always have to be first.

            Love doesn’t get angry over the small things, and it

doesn’t remember one reason after another to be hurt.

Love isn’t happy when someone else fails but is happy with

the truth.

            Love will always protect others, especially those who

            are often picked on or teased.

Love always believes the best about others and is steady and true.

Love never gives up. Preaching will stop someday. So will

speeches. Knowledge will come to an end. Today we only

know part of what there is to know. We can preach and speak

only with a small part of understanding, but when perfection

comes then what is imperfect will go away.

I am now young, and so I talk and think and speak like a

child. When I become an adult I will put childish ways behind

me. Now we see only a poor reflection, like in a mirror; then

we will see face-to-face. Now I only know part of what there is

to know; then I will know fully and will be fully known as a great leader.

And now these three remain:

Faith, Hope and Love.

But the greatest of these is love.

                        1 Corinthians 13:13  

By Maud Sosu

(Junior Mentor)