A Lifetime of Love

Happy Valentine's Day!

Thinking about doing something, anything, versus doing it;

 what a world of difference lies between those two points!

Thinking about saying 'I love you' is not the same as saying it!

Let's do more than think about celebrating love today!

Let's really, truly, humbly, thankfully, simply celebrate! 

Today and every day💞

Let's live this quote;

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

John Burroughs

Thinking about loving versus loving;

now there's life's biggest challenge! We all 

 have many opportunities to succeed or fail 

at Olympic-scale love-challenges. 

Who do we apply our 

best effort for, in 

countless choices 

we make

 every 

day?!

💘 

Love, ah love, since time began

Mingles highs with lows

 Love, patient Teacher of man

Testing joys with woes 

Love, of Olympian charge

God, (who IS LOVE), metes 

Scales of hurdles small and large

Only love defeats 

Love, a treasure above price

Love, the poet's laud

Love, the living sacrifice

Offered unto God

Love, the blossom of romance

And full flower too

Love, the rhythm of a dance

Re-learned all life through 

Love, a gentle lifter-up

Love, the pauper's gold

Love, the sparkle in life's cup

Whether young or old

Love, the worth in every deed

Value beyond count 

Love, the courage to proceed

When the odds surmount 

Love kindles eyes with starlight

Love, both pang and thrill

Love, a howling appetite

Only love can fill

Love kisses, hugs, pricks and stings

Love, beyond compare

Love, no matter what life brings

Is able to bear 

Love, the music of the soul

'Deep calling to deep'

Hope and heartache's holy toll

Tender Shepherd's keep

Love, vim and vexation's crux

Love, the age-old art

Of blushing school-boy's 'aw, shucks'

Wooing school-girl's heart

Love, the anchor of 'I do'

Love, the power of

God in us to help us through

A lifetime of love

Janet Martin

Ps.42:8

The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day,

and at night His song is with me

as a prayer to the God of my life.

John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you,

 that you love one another;

 as I have loved you,

 that you also love one another.

Rom.13:8

Owe no one anything except to love one another,

for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is patient, love is kind.

It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,

it is not easily angered,

it keeps no account of wrongs.

Love takes no pleasure in evil,

but rejoices in the truth. ...