Walking in Wisconsin...

Spent Memorial Day weekend with wonderful friends.... seven of us from the Big Apple visited dear friends in Madison WI.  This couple grew up in Madison WI, lived in NYC for ten years and then moved back home, bought her parents' bakery, and are the proud parents of the most adorable baby boy I've ever seen.  (Nope, I'm not biased at all...)

Between bites of hot & spicy cheese bread at the farmer's market, Michael's frozen custard and grilling dinner on the back deck, it was a joy to be around a family whose home is filled with a sense of order and calm.  There's respect and love all around ~ not the "I'll do whatever you want" love that is prevelant ~ but the "I'll do what is best and honest" love that doesn't seek its own but seeks the good of the other.  The best verse to describe what I see in my friends' home is below.  Though sadly most of us know it as a cliche, if we look at it with fresh eyes and seek to understand and live out the love God describes, we may find it more challenging -and rewarding- than we expect.

1 Corinthians 13

⁴ Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; ⁵ does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; ⁶ does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 
⁸ Love never fails.