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"The Proof of Your Love"

  I'm not the biggest fan of contemporary Christian music, yet there are some songs I hear from time to time that stir something within me beyond what I can put into cognitive phrases.  "The Proof of Your Love" is one of those songs.    Performed by the band For King and Country, it is the song-form of the well-known "love passage" of 1 Corinthians 13.  It impacted me when I first heard it, but days and years have a way of making me forgetful.  I find that that song has taken its place among hundreds of beloved songs I wish I could remember all the time, but which sadly are waiting for me to unearth them from the complicated filing system of my brain.      Today, something or Someone (my Lord, Who does best at reminding me of important things), made me think of this song, so I looked it up on youtube to see what I could find.    King and Country's official video of the song dramatically portrays the power of love.  I pulled back a bit at first, both intrigue