One of the hardest and easiest things to do is to be selfless. It is hard when you’re not purposefully putting others first before you and it is easy to put your yourself first. It is can also be easy to not purposefully put others first before you and hard when you put your yourself first. Sometimes making that determination as to what is selfish is the hardest to figure out.

Selflessness is loving other people, regardless. You have to be patient, kind, and understanding. You never know what kind of environment others have been exposed to, how they were taught love and kindness, or even if they were. If you know better – you do better. You have to INTENTIONAL to be selfless and you’re INTENTIONAL when you're selfish. It is up to you to choose. God gave us free will and he gave us Jesus to show us the way. Giving others the best of you will always bring out the best in them. It might take time but it is worth it in the end.

13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

1 Corinthians 13

Marcia K. Gibney,

Director of Recreation Ministry