what does love look like?

...maybe something like this... =)

feelings vs. obedience

"You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings towards Him. They are indefinite and fluctuate. But just as far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it, you love Him. It is not natural to us sinful, ungrateful human beings to prefer His pleasure to our own, or to follow His way instead of our own way, and nothing, nothing but love of Him can or does make us obedient to Him." 
(E. Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward, Kindle Edition)

interesting read

A friend tipped me off to this interesting article by Barbara King titled, Jared Diamond, A New Guinea Campfire, And Why We Should Want To Speak Five Languages.

This from one of the final paragraphs about a Canadian study of Alzheimer's disease in monolingual vs. bilingual patients:

"Bilingual patients," Diamond concludes, "suffer less cognitive impairment than do monolingual patients with the same degree of brain atrophy: bilingualism offers partial protection against the consequence of brain atrophy." The reason? The brain of a bilingual person "is constantly having to decide" to speak, think, or comprehend sounds in one or the other language.

Fascinating! I enjoyed both the article itself, and the comments below it from readers. In my travels, I constantly meet many Deaf people who know many more languages (both spoken/written and signed) than I do.

blessed perspective

"For all the wickedness in the world that man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped into the sea." (W. Langland)

"Cruelty [evil] and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal." (E. Elliot)