“Love is patient, love is kind. It
does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.”
-1 Corinthians 13:4
Dr. Karl Menninger, one of our day’s
most prominent psychiatrist, has said, “Love is the medicine for our sick old
world.” His staff was often told that love was the most powerful thing they
could give to their patients.
Scientists have been analyzing love
in the laboratory recently. They have learned that love produces changes in
body chemistry. When a male meets a female, the blood level of an amino acid,
phenylalanine, leaps to a high equaled only by devouring a pound of chocolate.
“People in the throes of love,” says researcher Cathy Lawhon, “call it magic
but human behaviorists attempt to define it scientifically. Theories of how
chemistry works range from the biochemical effects or raised phenylalanine
levels in the blood during love relationships to synchronous and harmonious
personal interaction styles.”
More than 19 centuries ago, in the
city of ancient Ephesus, a learned rabbi, turned missionary-preacher by the
name of Paul, analyzed the chemistry of love. He mentioned a variety of
ingredients which make up the real thing: patience, truthfulness, sacrifice,
service, etc.
Lets recall 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, “If
I speak with the tongues of men and of angels but do not have love, I have
become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy,
and know all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains but
do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the
poor, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits
me nothing.”
God Bless Your Heart.
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