Love does not feel the need to proclaim himself to be great or worthy of attention. Love takes the lower seat at the table because love genuinely esteems others as worthy of honor, praise and attention. Love knows his value, comprehends his value, and so freely respects the value of another. A person who has been demeaned by another will respond, naturally, in either of two ways: He will retreat into shyness and introversion or he will try to create for him self an appearance of superiority by bragging. A braggart is often labeled a fool because his actions do not fit the verbal picture he paints of himself. But, love does not abandon the fool, yet. Rather, love calls the braggart to come close, to truly see who he is and invites him to lay down the lie. Love exchanges the rag of self-gratification for the garments of freedom so that a person may enjoy and delight in who God made him to be and who others are. Think about it.