Over the last couple of years I've tried to put into writing and then read daily those things that I need to learn in my core that don't seem to come easily. Today on my flight to spend a week at the beach with my parents and sisters : ) I felt such conviction about a bad attitude I had been struggling with (sorry Honey!). Somehow above the noise of my own heart, I felt the Holy Spirit draw me to really think about the simplicity of the love described in 1 Corinthians 13. So I've come up with some new additions to my daily truth statements- maybe they'll encourage you too!

Today is another day full of opportunities to know the real You and to make the real You known. To learn to be loved and to love.
Today I will care for Your heart because You care for mine. 
Today I will love You well, I will love myself well, my family and others well. 
I will choose love over all else and I fully realize that it will be costly to do so. Today I choose to be patient, to be kind, not to be envious of anyone, and not to boast about myself or what I've done. I reject pride in myself and choose humility. Today I will love by not dishonoring anyone. The truth is I cannot possibly truly love while looking out for myself, so I leave that up to God. I refuse to be known as one who gets angry easily. Today when someone wrongs me, I will forgive and forget. I refuse to enjoy talking about what is wrong, but I will celebrate what is right and true. I will always choose to protect rather than uncover or attack. I will always trust and assume the best instead of being suspicious or assuming the worst. 
The radical love I choose today will never allow me the luxury of anything less than a hopeful perspective about God or myself, about my family or friends, or about the world. I will relentlessly, without a moment or day off, continue in this kind of love, excluding no one, no matter who they are and no matter how I've been treated by them. Today I cannot fail because today I choose the kind of love that always brings true success and true life. 
I am not a child so I refuse to talk, think, or debate like a child today. Today I will live with the awareness that I will soon see God face to face and know Him as intimately as He knows me, therefore I'll act like the adult that I am and focus on what I will take with me into eternity - my ability to believe in what I cannot yet see, my ability to filter everything through the understanding that God's heart towards me is always good, and my ability to choose to be extravagant with the love that has been given to me. But my favorite will forever be getting and giving this crazy love! 

The truth is, even if I never show another person this kind of love I will have full access to it myself, by its very definition. So it is my privilege, not an obligation or burden, to choose to give love freely. 

This is the love I've been given, the love I found the real me inside of - and this is the love I will give and allow others to find themselves in when they are with me.

-Elizabeth Enlow