On July 4 Farris MacPherson and I will begin our 44th year of marriage. Our relationship is one between a dreamer and a doer, an introvert and an extrovert, and a logical and an emotional decision maker.
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The dreamer is inclined to recall the great explanation of Love from St. Paul in the thirteenth chapter of his first letter to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 13.4-7) to describe the loving characteristics of the doer.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Farris does act with patience, is generous in her kindness, and avoids boasting about her work to help others. She is appalled by arrogance or rudeness. She seeks and celebrates the truth. She bears, believes in, has hope for those she loves “warts and all”.
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