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A new take on Corinthians 13:4  We used this in our wedding, and now I can see how it really applies to raising our girls and homeschooling.

Though I teach my children how to multiply, divide, and diagram a sentence,
but fail to show them love, I have taught them nothing.

And though I take them on numerous field trips, to swim practice and flute
lessons; and though I involve them in every church activity, but fail to
give them love, I profit nothing.

And though I scrub my house relentlessly, run countless errands, and serve
three nutritious meals every day but fail to be an example of love, I have
done nothing.

Love is patient with misspelled words and is kind to young interrupters.

Love does not envy high SAT scores of other homeschool families.

Love does not claim to have better teaching methods than anyone else, It is
not rude to the fourth telephone caller during a science lesson, does not
seek perfectly behaved geniuses, does not turn into a drill sergeant, thinks
no evil about friends' educational choices.

Love bears all my children's challenges, believes all my children are God's
precious gifts, hopes all my children establish permanent relationships with
Christ, and endures all things to demonstrate God's love.

Love never fails.

Where there are college degrees, they will fail; where there is knowledge,
it will vanish away.

For we know in part and we teach in part. But when the trials of life come
to our children, the history, math, and science will be done away and faith,
hope and love will remain; but the greatest of these is love.