Love is patient, Love is kind,It does not envy, It does not boast,It is not proud, It is not rude,It is not self-seeking,It is not easily angered,It keeps no record of wrongs.
Corinthians 13 : 4
My host family told me yesterday that this chapter is translated from Greek. Even if I cannot read the original Greek version she showed me, I think this is a perfect translation. In this Love Chapter, all the sentences share one subject, love. This makes the whole paragraph be united. Then every two sentences come as a pair, such as “Love is patient, Love is kind.” They share the same sentence pattern. Moreover, each pair is either positive or negative. For instance, the second pair starts with “It does not” and the third pair starts with “It is not”. In additional, the two sentences in a pair express similar or close-related view points. For example, patience and kindness are both considered to be characteristics of a nice person. Even if all the sentences in the Love Chapter are short ones, they flow so well from one to another in ways of both structure and meaning. Furthermore, all those short sentences balance the entire paragraph and express a powerful thought as a whole. The chapter only uses some ordinary feelings yet successfully describes an invisible object, LOVE.
Mother is an instructor, Mother is a companion.
She is always missing me, She is always concerning about me,
She is always criticizing, She is always encouraging,
She does not want to hate,
She does not want to blame,
She devotes all her love to me.
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