Pondering Love

I've only loved....really loved a few people in my life. Each love was different. Fairytale love - yes I've experienced it. It was great and overwhelming. It was full of twists, turns, and surprises. Unassuming love. One things leads to another and you've been daitng the same person for hmmm....well, all of a sudden you realize, this person is pretty great - not what I expected, but pretty great. Convienent love - it happens. Have we not all had one? You know, the one where you are convienently alone, so is he/she and there you go. One day you realize there is something there that wasn't there in the beginning. And my treasured Unconditional love - you know who you are - you have been and will always be the greatest. And now I sit here and wonder about my "Love Song for No One". Is there another love out there? Not really sure. In today's society I wonder if it's all worth it. How many couples do you know that are TRULY happy? How many couples are willing to stick it out to the end? How many men/women have NOT cheated on their spouse? I'd love to say that love still happens, but I'm not really sure. And why is that? Why is it that only our elderly know the meaning of "in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer, until death do us part." Have we as a society gotten SO wrapped up in the idea of love that we don't even know what it is? Hey, I'm wondering that about myself...no judgments here.

Beethoven's Love Letter

I'm sure many women are swooning over this love letter since the Sex and the City Movie came out so I figured I'd post it. Afterall, it is how the confession of love should be, don't you think?

Good morning, on July 7

Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us -
I can live only wholly with you or not at all -
Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits -
Yes, unhappily it must be so -
You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you. No one else can ever possess my heart - never - never -
Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves.
And yet my life in V is now a wretched life -
Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men -
At my age I need a steady, quiet life - can that be so in our connection?
My angel, I have just been told that the mailcoach goes every day - therefore I must close at once so that you may receive the letter at once -
Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together -
Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - you - you - my life - my all - farewell.
Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
ever thine
ever mine
ever ours

All for the love of God

Passage Matthew 22:36-39:
36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.

The other day I just felt compelled to go the cemetery. At the time I just wanted to take a few pictures of the beautiful oak trees and part of me wanted to see my grandparents. I wasn't close to them by any means, but sometimes you just feel the need to see the past. While there I saw this headstone. It doesn't look beautiful. Its nothing special, but the last few words struck a chord...."all for the love of God". WoW. What an impression this man is leaving....even after he is gone. All he did, he did for the love of God. God really doesn't ask a lot of us. He just ask that we would love Him and love others. Is it that difficult when He puts it that way? It doesn't really sound like it, but WE make it so darn impossible sometimes. I guess the Lord is just trying to remind me, don't make ME so difficult. I just want you to love Me. I desire you above all things, desire me in the same way. So tonight, I encourage you to do the same. Love him with all your are....do all that you do, for the love of God.