Love and Hemy Sorfina Halim

Tonight, in conjunction with the Festival of Lights for the Hindus, Sikhs and Jains, I took a moment in solitude to meditate. I meditated by chanting the Arabic words for God is Great and God is Almighty. Ever since I started yoga early this year, I learned that our breathing technique is crucial to achieving a perfect balance between our mind, body and soul. My meditation was very careful to chanting while breathing at my most optimum manner. (I must mention that my frequent SCUBA diving has contributed to a significant improvement in inhaling and exhaling deep, slow and even pattern breathing cycles)

As soon as I was done meditating, a poster hanging on my wall when I was a teenager popped up in my head. The poster was an excerpt from a verse in the Bible. I took the one copy of Bible I own, opened up the  verse that read:

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If 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. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. 

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.Love 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. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.

When 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.
Now 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.
And now these three remain; faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these, is love.

1 Corinthians 13:1 - 13:13

It has been a long time coming. I'm glad tonight happened. Truly enlightening. Thank you God.