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The kind of questions we raise, according to experts, says much about our personhood. Yet, it need not always be the higher order thinking kind of questions that we must focus on, otherwise the content tends to be more academic than personal. Questions, like, how's life today this second day of the new year, 2010? for example, sounds so ordinary and routinary yet it can mean everything.

How's life, for you, today this second day of the new year, 2010, is a question that encompasses the direction you may follow for the month or the whole year; or the heartbreakingnews you received throughout the day or the lifechanging note someone texted you or relayed to you by phone.

For the sake of discussion then we settle on the case in point: questions. For our main reference, the Scripture. Let us savor every word of 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 which we hope will be our guidepost this New Year, the unknown, incoming 2010:

Excellence of the Gift of Love: "If I speak with human tongues and angelic as well, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong, a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and, with full knowledge, comprehend all mysteries, if I have faith great enough to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give everything I have to feed the poor and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient; love is kind. Love is not jealous; it does not put on airs; it is not snobbish. Love is never rude; it is not self-seeking; it is not prone to anger; neither does it brood over injuries. Love does not rejoice on what is wrong but rejoices with the truth. There is no limit to man's forbearance ; to its trust, its hope, its power to endure.

Love never fails. Prophecies will cease; tongues will be silent; knowledge will pass away. Our knowledge is imperfect. When the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child I used to talk like a child, think like a child, reason like a child. When I became a manI put childish ways aside. Now we see indistinctly, as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. My knowledge is imperfect now; then I shall know even as I am known. There are in the end three things that last: faith, hope and love and the greatest of these is love."


These verses always remind us of the values in life that withstand the test of time. Perhaps this new year, 2010, whatever questions may arise in our lives: think 1 Cor. 13:1-13 and definitely, in the end, only three things matter whatever the question is; questions on faith, hope and love and the greatest of these is love.

This second day of January 2010: how's life today really means: Do you believe? Do you hope? and Do you love? If your answers are in the affirmative: You are in the right path of life. Sail on!