{"id":3099,"date":"2014-12-24T10:11:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T18:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2014-12-24T10:11:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T18:11:56","slug":"love-the-proof-is-in-the-pudding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2014\/love-the-proof-is-in-the-pudding\/","title":{"rendered":"Love: The Proof Is in the Pudding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/love-the-proof-is-in-the-putting.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/love-the-proof-is-in-the-putting-400x257.jpg\" alt=\"Love, the proof is in the putting\" style=\"width:400px; height:257px\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Love puts its object first.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you tell him, &#8220;I love you,&#8221; you&#8217;re saying you put him first.<\/p>\n<p>When you declare your love for them, you&#8217;re committing yourself to keep putting them ahead of yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Love puts aside selfish self-interests and self-centered self-absorption in order to do what is best for another.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Love puts a premium on the good of another<\/strong>&#8230;and without complaint or self-pity pays that premium.<\/p>\n<p>Love puts its best into benefiting the other. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Love puts its own life at the service and mercy of the other.<\/p>\n<p>Love puts itself into action <strong>before and while and after<\/strong> putting itself into words.<\/p>\n<p>Love puts loving ahead of being loved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Such love puts value, meaning, and believability into &#8220;I love you.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/love-the-proof-is-in-the-putting-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/love-the-proof-is-in-the-putting-2-400x210.jpg\" alt=\"love-the-proof-is-in-the-putting-2\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/love-the-proof-is-in-the-putting-2-400x210.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/love-the-proof-is-in-the-putting-2-150x78.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/love-the-proof-is-in-the-putting-2.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s love put Baby Jesus on planet Earth.<\/p>\n<p>That love you profess &#8212; What has it put?<\/p>\n<p>When you look at my putting, whom do you see me loving?<\/p>\n<p>Our professions of love can taste very curdled sometimes. Or to put it another way, &#8220;I love you&#8221; sometimes can be quite barf-inducing. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><strong>Love&#8217;s proof is in the putting.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That love you profess &#8212; Is it curdled and barf-worthy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Love: The Proof Is in the Pudding http:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-NZ","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[108,537,547,800],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons-for-living","tag-love","tag-marriage","tag-parenting","tag-relationships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-NZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}