Holy Spirit, help me not to become a clanging cymbal or a useless voice. Help me to demonstrate Your love even more than the knowledge and gifts You have given me to use. Help me to have the kind of love that suffers long, is kind, does not envy, and does not fulfill my pride or selfishness. Help my love to be simple, honest, sin-free, open, and strong to avoid being provoked into unnecessary arguments or conflicts. Help my love to enjoy truth, be strong enough to bear mine and others' burdens, and give the benefit of the doubt to others without being a hardened judge. Help my love to fuel my hope, and to use that hope to endure all things. Help my love to stand the test of time and not fail; let me learn to be the man You desire me to be through good and bad, easy and hard, mountains and valleys of life. Most of all, help me to heed Paul’s advice and abide in faith, hope, and love, but understand that love is the foundation and key to the other two. [paraphrased from 1 Corinthians 13]