I went to a wedding on Saturday evening.  A friend of our family was getting married and the woman performing the ceremony read over the often quoted love verses:

Love is patient; love is kind; 

love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. 

It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;  

 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.

 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

 Love never ends.

 But as for prophecies, they will come to an end;

 as for tongues, they will cease;

 as for knowledge,

 it will come to an end.

 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part;

  but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end.

  When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child;

 when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways.

  For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face.

 Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 

  And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. 

As I listened to her speak, I weighed each statement as a single statement.  Separating them out, I weighed my life against each line.  I became so aware of the things that need to change in the relationships closest to me.   Just wanting to be different is rarely enough to make a person different, so I'm now searching for the tangible changes that I need to make.