Kisses from Katie by Katie Davis Majors
Week 13: Chapter 12 — "Choosing to Love"
Read Chapter 12 of Kisses from Katie. Key Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4-7; John 15:12-13.
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Love is not primarily a feeling, Katie is learning — it is a daily, repeated, deliberate choice, and this chapter examines what that choice costs and what it produces.
Discussion Questions
6 questions1.How does the idea of love as a *choice* rather than primarily a *feeling* show up in this chapter? What are some of the specific choices Katie makes in this season — choices that required will rather than just emotion?
2.1 Corinthians 13 describes love as patient, kind, not self-seeking, not easily angered. Which of these qualities does Katie seem to have to work hardest to embody? Which ones do you?
3.Jesus says in John 15:13, "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends." In what daily, ordinary ways does Katie lay down her life — not dramatically but repeatedly, in small deaths of preference and comfort? Where do you see this pattern in your own relationships?