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time for an update!

uni has started and i underestimated the commitment needed for 5 subjects. i'm well and truly immersed in a never-ending pile of books.. it'll be a miracle if one day i actually read the readings assigned for a particular week; i'm so behind.

i am really starting to like The Script ! remember the guys from 'the man who can't be moved'? they are pretty good. besides youtubing lots of songs from The Script, i am relistening to 'Stolen' by Dashboard and The Luckiest by Ben Folds. I heard the latter at a wedding and the simplicity and honesty of the song touched me.

speaking of the wedding, it was hmm. i can't say the most touching wedding i've ever been to. but it did make me want to go and get hitched.. i suspect it's the novelty that appeals to me though, hahah.. although.. something in me stirred during the wedding service at the chapel. we read aloud from 1 corinthians 13. it may be the most cliche and overused bible verse ever, but hearing it echo from the pews in a multitude of voices that rose to the ceilings of the chapel, the words resounded more clearly than ever:

1 Corinthians 13

Love

¹If I speak in the tongues^a]">[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ²If 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 have not love, I am nothing. ³If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,^b]">[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.

⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

⁸Love 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. ⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. ¹¹When 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 childish ways behind me. ¹²Now we see but a poor 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.

¹³And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

with the way that 'love' is used so casually these days, i had forgotten what it really meant. it makes me wonder if i can find it within myself to be so self-sacrificing.. but i am determined. i want to love, not just romantically but extending to the people around me.. it is after all the greatest gift we can bestow onto someone else.