EXPRESSIONS OF LOVE

All day yesterday I was pumped after Life Giver prayer.  I am thankful for the group of women I pray with on Saturday.  It is relationship building and a venue where there is accountability, acceptance, comradarie,  safety, and love. The scripture lesson was about love and the ways love is expressed.  Love is expressed with loyalty, kindness, protection, comittment, patience, and longsuffering. Periodically, I am drawn to the passages of scripture that depicts the relationship between David and Jonathan.  Not only did they both love each other as friends, Jonathan asked David to vow to show kindness and not destroy  his family after he became king.  David agreed and thus a covenant  agreement  was made.  Jonathan protected David from the wrath of his father Saul.  Some time after Jonathan's death, King David begin to inquire about Jonathan's relatives.  It was discovered that Jonathan had a grandson that was alive and who name was Mephibosheth who was lame in his legs.  David showed kindness to Mephibosheth by bringing him to his palace and allowed him to  regularly eat at his table.