What is one way you have grown this year?
My short answer: The year I have learned to keep no ledger of the wrong.
Growing in love is the slow work of becoming love itself. Scripture says that love covers all wrongs—but people cannot. We are, after all, the doers of many wrongs, and our vision is often clouded by the very hurts we endure.
Love never fails, yet human love so often does. Love is not self-seeking, yet only a few escape the pull of selfishness. Love keeps no record of wrongs, yet no one—except God—truly keeps no ledger of the wrong. For He is Love (1 John 4:8). His love was not merely spoken; it was fully displayed in the sacrifice of His beloved Son, Jesus Christ.
I am not Love itself, but I am deeply indwelt by the love of God. My aspiration is to become a person more akin to Christ—to love the Father, and to love others wholeheartedly, even when it costs me.
God’s love is perfect and unchanging. My love for others, however, is subject to daily growth and daily renewal. This year, therefore, is another year for me to give greater love—to let go of the ledger of wrongs (1 Corinthians 13:5), trusting that He who forgave me will equip me to forgive others.
Reflecting on my own journey, this is what I believe love ought to be.
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✨ The Enigma of Love
Love—everyone speaks of it,
Yet few truly walk its way.
Many love what towers high above,
But few know love that bends low, in the clay.
Love keeps no record of wrongs—
To weigh and measure love is not to love.
Jealousy is love’s own foe;
Humility is its native glove.
To endure all things—that is love,
To forgive all things—love’s deeper grace.
To love and hate is the novice’s art;
To release all hate—the master’s face.
Who believes in love and lives it out shall never fade.
For God is Love—the everlasting, the unending Day.
en yan hua fang 