Love is...enduring

It's a beautiful Spring evening. You are taking a stroll through the park. You notice kids running and jumping all over the playground. You see people running and walking the trail. In the midst of all the activity and movement, you notice two people sitting still on a local bench. The couple is close, connected and delighted to be in one another's presence. You just see that the years, better yet decades, have formed one of the truest expressions of love available...love endures.

Love is enduring. Love, when lived with the purity it's intended to express, never wavers, never loses its longing. Love endures through every circumstance.

Love endures through every circumstance.

Loving relationships are not chasing fleeting feelings, they are directing a lasting love toward one another. The distinct challenge of living love and embracing love is a clear commitment to endure. Love endures through every circumstance.

Love provides an anchoring truth and timeless identity.

Love provides an anchoring truth and timeless identity. Love offers us a choice in every moment to choose relationship, to forgive, to move close, to declare a truer-truth. Love is not driven by whims and fleeting moments. Love is the anchor in the storm and the light shining through the darkness. Love is more than a feeling, love is an invitation to live beyond circumstances into a lasting hope.

Love is an invitation to live beyond circumstances into a lasting hope.

Love is long suffering because it endures through every circumstance. Love looks forward beyond present circumstances because it always hopes. Love continues through every season because love never gives up. Love is a truer truth than the moments that attempt to steal and destroy relationship. Live into the hope and faithfulness of love.

Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance.

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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. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
(1 Corinthians 13:4-7, NLT)