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Good morning, thank you for being here again this morning as we continue our look at love as we are thinking about love. Love is not irritable, 1 Corinthians 13, 5c, love is not irritable. So let's use the example, you come home from a long day at work, a long day at school, whatever it might be, and you just don't want to be bothered, you just, you kind of need to decompress for a while, understandable. However, when someone in the family, someone that you know wants to talk, your response should not be irritable, you should be loving, and just listen to them. You might be in a situation where you need to say, I love you, you can certainly say that, can we talk a little bit later, I just need some time to decompress. Now in the perfect relationship, of course they're going to say, oh I love you too, and yeah, have all the time you need, we'll talk later. But that's not how it's always going to be, is it? Sometimes if you say, I need to decompress, they're going to say, well, you know what, I need to talk to you about this, this is very important. And again, this could be a loved one, could be a spouse, could be even at work for instance, where you might be approached by a co-worker or someone who needs to talk to you about the project that's being worked upon, or whatever that needs to be taken care of. And if you're loving, you're not going to be irritable. It just strikes me that I probably need to mention yet again, that we are supposed to show love to every other person on the face of the planet. All of humanity deserves to be shown love from us. And again, we always want to think of this love as being limited to people that we're close to, our spouse, our children, our brothers and sisters, our parents, whoever it might be. We want to limit love to that because we always think of love as just affection, just how we feel. In reality, love is how we act. Love is not irritable. Somebody has an issue they need to speak with you with, or whatever the case may be. Your response, my response, should not be irritability, should not be snapping at them. It should be a quiet, loving response, and we may need to have some space, but we ask for that with love. So think about love, think about ways that you can avoid being irritable, think about ways that maybe you have been in the past and you need to change that for the future. In any case, may God bless you as you continue to think about the Bible and think about love, and I'll see you again tomorrow.