Katie's prayer: Audio Adrenaline's "The Most Excellent Way"

Faith hope and love
But the greatest of these is love

I’m not completely Bible-illiterate! The refrain kept sticking out to me, mainly cause it’s so catchy, but also because I thought it was in the Bible. So my search for this Bible verse led me to 1 Corinthians 13...

If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails.
If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

As I was reading through that, my job kept popping up in my mind. Everyone always asks me how my job is going - my reply is always roughly the same - “It’s busy, but I LOVE it.” But when I see what the Bible has to say about the word “love” I’m not so sure that comment is as true as I want it to be. Love is patient, not inflated, not rude, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things, never fails, etc. Doesn’t really describe how I feel and act towards work sometimes. Sometimes I lose my patience, sometimes I attribute all success in the program to myself, sometimes I just give up, sometimes I’m not perfect. But the point of this praying is to help me reach perfection. And this time - it begins with actually going to work (something I skipped out on today, cause I didn’t feel like it).