Courage, Love and You

Courage, Love and You

Be courageous, take a chance on love or like; it’s the only true way to find it. We can’t be afraid of the unknown. Don’t be fearful of doors that are shut, shut doors are not necessarily closed doors. It may be scary to tell someone how you feel but, by not telling them and living with regret is a far worse thing to hold onto. Be brave, be true and above all be honest with yourself and validate your feelings and give yourself permission to find answers to your burning questions. I am telling you from experience, a very recent experience that even if you don’t get the answer you were hoping for…the most important thing is YOU ask the question. YOU were BRAVE, YOU were COURAGEOUS, but most of all YOU LOVED yourself enough not to live with fear and regret. YOU ARE SO LOVED!

Love…

Love…

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

My visions of love…

Sounds of ocean waves as the meet the shore

See the dew kissing the blades of grass and petals of wild flowers

Feeling the warm summer breeze caress my skin

Mesmerized by the nighttime sounds surrounding the lake while watching the moon dancing on its surface

Love is everywhere and nowhere near.