“This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” - 1 John 4:9-11 

-That’s a good one.

Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and 
with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ - Matthew 22:37-39

- Ah, love.  It is a many splendored thing.

“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” 1 Peter 4:8

and

“Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.” 1 John 3:18

Think about it.  God’s love for us, our love for God, and finally our love for one another.  Without the first two the last one won’t work right.  You’ll probably wind up with lust if the first two are off.  Let’s shoot for love.

All you single types, don’t feel left out, there is something for you as well.

32-35 I want you to live as free of complications as possible. When you’re unmarried, you’re free to concentrate on simply pleasing the Master. Marriage involves you in all the nuts and bolts of domestic life and in wanting to please your spouse, leading to so many more demands on your attention. The time and energy that married people spend on caring for and nurturing each other, the unmarried can spend in becoming whole and holy instruments of God. I’m trying to be helpful and make it as easy as possible for you, not make things harder. All I want is for you to be able to develop a way of life in which you can spend plenty of time together with the Master without a lot of distractions. - 1 Corinthians 7: 32-35 (The Message)

So I found this over at another blog and thought I’d put this up for all you young and hopeful types. Here’s the directions.

For my single brothers, fill in the variables yourself, scale of 1 to 10 for each:

Let “W” = Your wittiness

Let “G” = Your aggressiveness

Let “Ay” = Your attractiveness

Let “Ah” = Her attractiveness

Let “R” = Her “amount” of current relationship with a possible current boyfriend

Try it!

The mathematician who developed this says:

If ASK is less than zero you should lower your standards

If ASK is between zero and 1, you have exactly a snowball’s chance in heck with her

If ASK is between 1 and 10, game on!

If ASK is greater than 10, consider her more attractive friend instead.  (Personally I think it means you think too highly of yourself)

For what it’s worth, this equations is just further proof that there is no reason Jennie should be with me. Praise the Lord!