Relationships

Relationships are hard. Like really really hard. It's so easy to always put yourself first and think all about how the other complements you but I think it's the opposite. It's about putting the other person's needs before your own. Being slow to anger and always ready to forgive. However, if the other person is beating you up or making you cry every other day I think it's time to leave. Don't even think about it, if anyone lays a hand on you and then claims to love you I think you need to leave. I think I Corinthians 13 pretty much sums up all the things a relationship should have. And a relationship does not have to be a girlfriend/boyfriend relationship it can also be a friendship which is also a relationship. You have relationships with co-workers, patients, clients, neighbors. All these relationships should consist of love. And what 1 Corinthians says about love is that it is patient, kind, does not envy, does not boast, it is not proud or rude, self-seeking or easily angered, it keeps no records of wrong. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. That was pretty much verses 4-7 but the first four go into saying how you can basically be the nicest most wonderful person in the world but if you don't have love it means nothing. So I love to keep that in mind. I love helping others but if I don't have love in my heart, it pretty much means nothing. I think that's important for a relationship to do things out of love and the put the other person before yourself. I was watching this reality show on E! called Chasing the Saturday which is a pop girl group from England and there is one girl named Mollie who is the only single girl and I think it is because she puts everyone else before herself. She's the first one any of the other girls call when they need cheering up or upset about something because she is so bubbly, caring and full of love. I want to be like that, to put all of myself into helping others. I wonder how I could do that this month....