This is how it works

this is how it works
you're young until you're not
you love until you don't
you try until you can't
you laugh until you cry
you cry until you laugh
and everyone must breathe
until their dying breath

this is how it works
you peer inside yourself
you take the things you like
and try to love the things you took
and then you take that love you made
and stick it into some--
someone else's heart
pumping someone else's blood

and walking arm in arm
you hope it don't get harmed
but even if it does
you'll just do it all again

on the radio
you hear november rain
that solo's awful long
but it's a nice refrain
you listen to it twice
cause the dj is asleep
on the radio...

Regina Spektor

Love

1 I may speak in different languages of people or even angels.

But if I do not have love, I am only a noisy bell or a crashing cymbal.

2 I may have the gift of prophecy. I may understand all the secret things of God and have all knowledge, and I may have faith so great I can move mountains.

But even with all these things, if I do not have love, then I am nothing.

3 I may give away everything I have,

and I may even give my body as an offering to be burned.

But I gain nothing if I do not have love.

4 Love is patient and kind.

Love is not jealous, it does not brag, and it is not proud.

5 Love is not rude, is not selfish, and does not get upset with others.

Love does not count up wrongs that have been done.

6 Love takes no pleasure in evil but rejoices over the truth.

7 Love patiently accepts all things.

It always trusts, always hopes, and always endures.

8 Love never ends.

There are gifts of prophecy, but they will be ended.

There are gifts of speaking in different languages, but those gifts will stop.

There is the gift of knowledge, but it will come to an end.

1 Corinthians 13

"Without a heart I can never really know what it would be like to love someone, or ever really understand trashy novels."~Wizard of Oz

I just love these satin covered heart shaped candy boxes.

I can just picture some 1930's "doll" with hair piled high sitting in front of her waterfall dresser mirror touching a manicured finger to one of the chocolates in the box as the perfume bottle with the bulb atomiser shares the spotlight as gifts of the day.

I found these currently listed on eBay and just wanted to share. Yes. bad me. I have my bid in on a couple. I just love these! Is there any earthly use for them? I don't think so. They are just so nostalgic and old fashioned. I love the 'collection' auctions I find of these. A wife would get one from her husband every year for 20 years or so and would keep the box. Sniff. That's just so sweet!

"All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! "
Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)

...truer words were never spoken.

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare

Oh Bill, if you gave her a box like this filled with chocolates she would never doubt that you doth love.

There are only four questions of value in life.
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made of?
What is worth living for?
What is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same. Only love.
~Don Juan Demarco

Valentines Day used to be one of my favorite holidays. Those were the days before my life caved in and I became buried in the rubble. Sometimes you do walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I haven't forgotten that it's a deep dark scary place even though I walked through, and yes He was with me. But the hearts and the ruffles get buried in the shadows. I hope I can be the winning bid on one of these boxes, because I have just figured out what their use is. It's to inspire us to remember the love, and to dream about the love, and to appreciate the love.

To take a minute and just imagine the day that the box was opened, and to remember the love.

I have been spending some time in the scriptures, Song of Solomon lately, pursuing the depth of Christ's love for the Church, how He gives us the example of that relationship being like husband and wife.

Song of Solomon 8:6
"Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame."

So I am amazed that God reveals his feelings for us like this. Place me like a seal over your heart. Amazing. No one ever said that to me before.

This song is BEAUTIFUL. Click and listen to be blessed.



Love of my life
Look deep in my eyes
There you will find what you need
Give me your life
Lust and the lies
The past you're afraid I might see
You've been running away from me

You're my beloved
Lover I'm yours
Death shall not part us
It's you I died for
For better or worse
Forever we'll be
Our Love it unites us
It binds you to me
It's a mystery

Love of my life
Look deep in my eyes
There you will find what you need
I'm the giver of life
I'll clothe you in white
My immaculate bride you will be
Oh come running home to me yeah now

You're my beloved
Lover I'm yours
and Death shall not part us
It's you I died for
For better or worse
Forever we'll be
Our Love it unites us
and it binds you to me yea now now

Well you've been a mistress, my wife
Chasing lovers it won't satisfy
Won't you let me make you my bride
You will drink of my lips
And taste new life

You're my beloved
Lover I'm yours
Death shall not part us
It's you I died for
For better or worse
Forever we'll be
Our Love it unites us
it binds you to me

You're my beloved
Forever we'll be
Our love it unites us
And it binds you to me
It's a mystery


Genesis 29:20
So Jacob worked seven years to pay for Rachel. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days.

Aw. Jacob, you let us see what we have when our heart is love. Love lifts us up.

May you be lifted!