Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,Therefore, we are saved by hope.Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;Therefore, we are saved by faith.Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.Therefore, we are saved by love.No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

The last few days I have been thinking about love. I have been thinking about all the ways we are loved--how rampant (like the fires that God gave us for warmth) love is here on this earth for us. To me, love is THE proof there is a God. We can learn so many skills, but without first being loved, we cannot love ourselves. Love cannot be stumbled upon, as it has to have had a beginning. In that, we might say that God sent us to earth in solitude--that one after the other we were sent to ajourn this life away from heaven---but God sent us with a constant map for our memory of our heavenly home in our ability to make us "one together in body and spirit" through our love. We may be singular selves, but always with a companion through our extensions of affection in every day and nearly every moment. I challenge myself to think of all the love God has offered us---!










(Apache wedding vase)


Treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind yourselves often of what brought you together.Give the highest priority to the tenderness,gentleness and kindness that your connection deserves.When frustration, difficulties and fear assail your relationship,as they threaten all relationships at one time or another,remember to focus on what is right between you,not only the part which seems wrong.In this way, you can ride out the storms when clouds hide the face of the sun in your lives - remembering that even if you lose sight of it for a moment, the sun is still there.And if each of you takes responsibility for the quality of your life together, it will be marked by abundance and delight.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. I feel so blessed that Heavenly Father gave me enough of heaven to have a remembrance of the goodness gotten from attending to the business of loving another. How grateful I further am that love endures. It's measure is not in moments, and likely not even in lifetimes. It exists in the roots not only of our own fruit bearing trees but in the feeding of roots that will grow and re-grasp the earth when we are gone. For as the earth feeds itself on the materials of its forebears, so too does our legacy of love feed our families and friends infinite um. How Good is God! In every thing, and in every day I see and acknowledge Him for all He gives me. He has given me love, so I might love another, and this for you too! Knowing your love came first from heaven, how sweet a gift it is indeed! I pray that I might care for you, for your love and for our legacy of connectedness's like the Savior did through his example....unfettered with pre-qualifed notions of who you or I should be to 'earn' it.



GREAT LOVE QUOTES:

"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever." -

"The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
"We need not think alike to love alike."
"I love you
Not only for what you are
But for what I am When I am with you ."