Description
Monologue on 1 Corinthians 13
(I use the name Andrew. It is best if the reader inserts their own name here).
It's all so familiar:
'Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity',
they translate that as 'love' now - makes more sense, charity has the wrong ring,
'Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal'.
Noisy but not much use.
And it goes on, 'prophetic powers, mysteries, knowledge' all seems a bit remote.
Then one day the penny dropped. This really was about me, you too perhaps.
Could I really honestly say:
'Andrew is patient; Andrew is kind'?
Sometimes?
'Andrew is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude'.
Ask those who know me?
Continues...
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
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