 Friends         | I am very happily married  Gracious Swan: Buying A new handbag Seeing this gorgeous black handbag Looked at it and said no Buying dog food purchases completed Walking back to the car drawn back to the handbag Brought it Why oh why did I buy it Not as if I needed it Then the realization hit My mum loved handbags Purple her favorite colour Tears fill my eyes Wishing she was here Buying the handbag Reminds me of mum Mum passed away a year before my husband Gracious Swan: Ill survive This is the 3rd day without my beloved Silence greets me as I wake in the mornings No loving embrace during the night The bed is empty Realizes he is gone No tears will bring him back Each day brings new challenges With out him How will I survive No light No more dreams of the future of us together Realizing I must start a new dream without him ‘ Where will it lead me It is now the 5th day with out him My thoughts are still jumbled Realizes that decisions need to be made What do I do Hide or accept the challenges that have been placed before me I am on my own while I think Needing the space from others around They mean well It is now 2 weeks since his passing The wake has been planned for tonight Its to celebrate his life Not to mourn his death He loved life, family, friends and to travel We each had a story to share It is now Monday morning I knew my husband would want me to keep on travelling Just follow the road he would say Matters not where you wind up Enjoy I brought a pup He looked at me with his brown eyes Knew he was mine He will be my travelling companion as well as my older dog Tonight I can not sleep my mind is in turmoil Wanting to tell him Little stories of what has happened today Can he hear me Does time heal all wounds View all 14 posts  LadyOfEire: sis I am here now I am back for Good you have never been alone ever I love you with all my heart  sherimar: Swan, my heart aches reading of your grief. I understand the need to be alone in your pain. Our loved ones leave this life ...and us, but love never dies. I pray your pain lessens more each day. Gracious Swan: time wounds all heal All people die it is the path to death that matters The weekend ( 19th June ) Packed and already to go A little fishing town Where my last promise to him was kept To scatter his ashes in the sea ‘ With family saying goodbye Stories were told Each remembering Those special times The love he shared so willingly The times when something caused his anger Our camping trips away Hold on to those memories He lived a full life how to be able to sit with the memories. all people die it is the path to death that matters Gracious Swan: Do not judge Going to the shops on different days See a older guy sitting on the bench there in his suit all crumpled and a little grubby Such a gentle soul Waving hello and asks how are you With the biggest smile on his face to all those who walk in Many ignore him Wonders how much it hurts him He is just lonely Harming no one How does it hurt just to answer back by saying hello Have we as a community Forgotten our humanity Forgotten that one day we might be the ones sitting on that bench waiting to hear a friendly voice Until you walk in their shoes Do not judge View all 9 posts  mainecatcleo: That is so spot on, it is something we all need to do daily because it keeps ourselves in check also LadyOfEire: Another Spot on observation my love we all should the knowledge here pain and sorrow of another's soul may not be evident at first glance it is when we walk in another's shoes do we truly understand another wise words sister Gracious Swan: YouTube Did Jesus actually exist or was Jesus based on a myth? New Testament scholar Dr. Bart Ehrman explores the historical evidence for Jesus Christ and debunks Gracious Swan: I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me my want is wrong. Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view. Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly. Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you. I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend or your colleague. If you allow me any of my own wants, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself so that someday these wants of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right - for me. To put up with me is the first step in understanding me. Not that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences. Dr Keirsey Gracious Swan: “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.” ― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever Gracious Swan: Ill survive break free from the limitations of the prison of your mind from having a narrow view of life, the world, and its existence As every breathe we take is a new beginning Summer comes after the death of spring Flowers are in bloom death when autumn takes its place To be reborn after the death of winter Wind rustling the leaves talking sit and listen to what they have to say break free Gracious Swan: Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. – Louise Erdrich View all 4 posts  Nicotina: Poignant and beautiful. This captures the how bittersweet love and loss love is. Love will break your heart and it's worth it.   ozziwi: My heart goes out to you and your family ..may he rest in peace ..and God bless very sad time for you all |
You can claim you love someone easy enough to toss that word around but if you do not respect their beliefs or know their favorite likes and dislikes, you don't even know them let alone love them
Therefore Love is always conditional
Love is patient : How many have the patience to wait to explain things in a calm manner ?
Love is kind : Do others help the less fortunate without boasting what they do ? and turn their noses down on the down trodden Those living on the streets .walking past them
Remember Luke 10 29 -37 29 But the man was anxious to justify himself and said to Jesus, 'And who is my neighbour?'
30 In answer Jesus said, 'A man was once on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of bandits; they stripped him, beat him and then made off, leaving him half dead.
31 Now a priest happened to be travelling down the same road, but when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
32 In the same way a Levite who came to the place saw him, and passed by on the other side.
33 But a Samaritan traveller who came on him was moved with compassion when he saw him.
34 He went up to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. He then lifted him onto his own mount and took him to an inn and looked after him.
35 Next day, he took out two denarii and handed them to the innkeeper and said, "Look after him, and on my way back I will make good any extra expense you have."
36 Which of these three, do you think, proved himself a neighbour to the man who fell into the bandits' hands?'
37 He replied, 'The one who showed pity towards him.' Jesus said to him, 'Go, and do the same yourself.'
It does not envy: Envy is defined as "a feeling of discontent and resentment aroused by another's desirable possessions or qualities, accompanied by a strong desire to have them for oneself. How many try and keep up with the joneses Look they have a better house They live better lives have better clothes It’s a must have new dress ect even though they have a wardrobe full of new clothes some not even worn
It does not boast: Isnt boasting self-satisfied talk about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities. bragging Im better than another I have a better education than you
It is not proud : The word proud comes from the Greek wording meaning “puff up “ or blow up “William Penn, the founder of the Colony of Pennsylvania, wrote, “A proud man then is a kind of glutton upon himself; for he is never satisfied with loving and admiring himself; whilst nothing else, with him, is worthy either of love or care
Love does not delight in evil It does not dishonor others : Isnt name calling others evil : spreading gossip evil : and a dishonor to the truth
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.