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First day of February. Time flies really fast. And of course it's officially the start of love month. Valentines is just around the corner --- literally.

Try going to the mall. You'd see all the chocolates piled up already. Balloons, stuff-toys, greeting cards and all the usual stuffs normally being use as gifts during this season are now all up for grabs. But it's still early for me talk about Valentines day. Got to wait for another 13 days before that officially happens.

13.

My most favorite chapter from the Bible comes from the 13th chapter of the Book of Corinthians. Most-likely you're familiar with that as well after all it's quite one of most love verses since it gives a detailed description/definition of what love is all about. Love in the context of the Bible.

I was just reminded by that passage cause it was the 2nd reading from yesterday's Eucharistic mass. And that reminded me of a scene from the movie A Walk to Remember. Just timely. I won't elaborate on that for now. But yeah, this passage is just timely for this season.

1 Corinthians 13

Love

1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.

11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we seebut a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I was looking for love's definition. And He had given me the answer.

Now who can say 13 is not a good number?