{"id":613,"date":"2014-06-07T06:27:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T06:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/?p=613"},"modified":"2014-06-07T06:27:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T06:27:29","slug":"l-is-for-love-and-letting-go-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"L is for Love and Letting go"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\nP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); }P.western { font-family: \"Liberation Serif\",\"Times New Roman\",serif; font-size: 12pt; }P.cjk { font-family: \"Droid Sans\"; font-size: 12pt; }P.ctl { font-family: \"FreeSans\"; font-size: 12pt; }\n--><\/style>\n<p><i>&#8216;\u2026 it [love] keeps no record of wrongs.&#8217;<\/i> 1 Corinthians 13:5 New International Version<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always counted things, ever since I learnt to count (which was definitely before I went to school). Since I learnt to write, I&#8217;ve tended to write down what I&#8217;ve counted. How much money I have, how many jars of marmalade I&#8217;ve made, what I&#8217;ve sown in the allotment, what I&#8217;ve harvested from the allotment. I&#8217;m not very concerned about the size of the answer, I just like to know how much, how many.<\/p>\n<p>I was at a wedding recently and 1 Corinthians 13 was read (as it so often is at weddings). It is beautiful (in part) and incomprehensible, or at least hard to understand, (in part).<\/p>\n<p>On this occasion a modern translation (New International Version) was used and the phrase above leapt out at me and has stayed with me.<\/p>\n<p><i>Love keeps no record of wrongs. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>It says to me: Don&#8217;t count the wrongs against you. Don&#8217;t write them down. You don&#8217;t need to know how many there are. Let them go. Forgive.<\/p>\n<p>When truly I love another person, I don&#8217;t count their wrongs, real or perceived. And we are called to love our neighbours as ourselves. So I don&#8217;t count others&#8217; wrongs, others&#8217; mistakes, and I don&#8217;t count mine either.<\/p>\n<p>God loves us and doesn&#8217;t keep a record of our wrongs. That is forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>This is also letting go and non-attachment. If I truly let go, I need no record of what I let go. If I am truly not attached, I need no record of what I not attached to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;\u2026 it [love] keeps no record of wrongs.&#8217; 1 Corinthians 13:5 New International Version &nbsp; I&#8217;ve always counted things, ever since I learnt to count (which was definitely before I went to school). Since I learnt to write, I&#8217;ve tended &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/?p=613\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanie-blog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}