It started as a Valentines card, or maybe it was Mother’s
Day but the hand scribbled index card made it to the family wall of fame, aka
the refrigerator door, where’s it’s been nearly two years.
You ar FASt with LOVE!
What a simple, yet profound compliment. Think about the mind of an 8 year-old boy. Fast is everything. Run fast or at least fast enough to beat your
sisters, finish that stinking homework fast, eat supper fast and go play, fast
cars are cool cars, fast is the best. To
say that someone is fast with love, now that’s something.
Now, I’ve never been fast and but I’m even slower, like
16-minute mile slower, with age and a surgically repaired knee. But there are some things I’m faster at than 8
year-old me. I’m faster at recognizing
problems and coming up with solutions, I’m faster at evaluating people, I’m
faster in the decision-making process. When
pressure hits or my devotion life is weak, I’m faster at losing my patience,
saying something rude, thinking poorly of folks. And the distance between thinking mean and
speaking mean is much, more shorter. #A’s
note above, is a great reminder of a better way to be fast. Fast with Love. Here’s what it looks like:
Love is patient and kind;
love does not envy or boast;
it is not arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the
truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all
things, endures all things.
Love never ends…
Lord God please make us fast with love!
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