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MY FRIENDS POST SOMETHING THEY ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT, EPISODE 4: WE LOVE FLAWED LOVE

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*1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NLT [Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no records of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice, but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.] As I was watching Jada, address the rumours and “entanglement” (her words not mine) she was involved in (because of the pressure of social media talking about her love life, as if concerned them), it occurred to me how weirdly obsessed we are as a generation of flawed love. We actively seek or are active bystanders to love on social media that is flawed — either being staged for the camera and for the fans, being conditional, being toxic or being materialistic and shallow with no actual substance. Yet, we’re suckers for it. I don’t think we realise how concerned we are over love that is nothing near perfect and ...