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love is package deal

The following devotion is from Max Lucado.   Awesome thoughts on love… 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NASB Love… bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  How long must I put up with you?
 Jesus’ actions answered His own question…
 Until the rooster sings and the sweat stings and the mallet rings and a hillside of demons smirk at a dying God.
 How long? Long enough for every sin to so soak my sinless soul
that heaven will turn in horror
until my swollen lips pronounce the final transaction: “It is finished.” How long? Until it kills me. * * *  My parents were not too big on restaurants.   Partly because of the selection in our small town. Dairy Queen offered the gourmet selection, and everything went downhill from there. The main reason, though, was practicality. Why eat out when you can stay home? Restaurant trips were a Sunday-only, once-or-twice-a-month event. Funny, now that I am a parent, the phil...