Communication and respect
They go hand and hand to form love.
If we really love a person, we will listen to what they are saying. Not pretending to be listening. While someone is talking, we are often talking to ourself not paying attention to what they are saying. Waiting our turn to speak.
Caring for a person is being concerned for that person. What is troubling them? Are they going through some difficult trial or hardship? Do they need a listening ear to share their problems?
There have been times in my marriage, after talking to my husband he repeated what he thought I said. The conversation he heard in his mind was completly different than what I said. We may not be actually hearing what a person is saying.
To understand what a person is saying we must clear our minds of what we think they are saying.
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Love shows respect to a person. It does not put a person down, especially in front of someone.
Love has patience with a person (1 Cor. 13:4). Love is kind (1 Cor. 13:4). These two charactistics of love is hard to master at times.
It is hard to have patience with a person when they keep repeating things that irritate you.
It is hard to show kindness to a person who you don’t like associating with.
But I noticed while studying the love chapter (1 Cor. 13) that love is not a feeling. But it is the action you take toward a person.
Be patient with a person even if you don’t feel like it.
Be kind to a person even if you don’t feel like it.
