1 Peter 4:8

"And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins."
1 Peter 4:8


I love this scripture, I think that it says so much... that actually learning to love the people around you is the most important thing there is, and that that lesson helps you learn most of the others... and helps you overcome mistakes in a lot of other areas.  Truly loving people all the way through, loving who they are, who they can become, loving them at the core... is so different from what we usually call love.  Most of the love that we show in society today is absolutely temporary... *absolutely* superficial... here today, gone the next minute.  We discard people like they are yesterday's trash, always looking for something new, something different, something more exciting or dramatic.  There isn't any solidity.  The way that God loves us is SO different from that.  It is a 40-foot thick rock solid granite foundation running down so far that no imaginable earthquake could shake it.  And when we learn to love people that way, then we'll never be offending them with other sins... we'll see the whole picture and how our actions touch so many people, not just ourselves.  You can't *be* selfish if you have charity for other people.... and that solves a lot of our problems. :)