Love means…

Love means:
accepting faults
walking through the hard times
wearing the battle scars
staying together
making a decision to stay in love

Try saying this…

Try saying this…
I’m sorry
I forgive you
You’re beautiful
You’re wonderful
You’re the best
I want nothing from you but you
I take you as you are
Please
Thank you
I love you

You Choose

Choose to remember the good times.
Choose to always see the best.
Choose to make memories.
You’ll stand the test. ~ The Marriage Files

All You Need is Love. Really?

All You Need is Love.

Really?

I don’t think so. Nice sentiment. Nice song.

We need peace, joy, faith, hope, so much more.

What about the practical things like work, home, food?

The sixties was an era filled with an idealistic movement, filled with the belief that you could live on love. Nice thought, not very realistic.

Well, where are those people now? Lawyers, doctors, school teachers, chief executives, retirees. Interesting that somewhere along the way, they left the communes, became part of the system, rejoined society.

“Above all things, love” YES!

But, we have to eat, clothe our families, build an inheritance for our children’s, children.

The best way we can do that is having a nurturing environment, a marriage our children can aspire to, work hard, wear one face by being the same inside the house and outside, lead a life of example.

So now I am saying “love”, and so much more.

Quote for the day…

“May you love as long as you live and live as long as you love”. ~ Robert Heinlein

From This Day Forward

 

From this day forward,
You shall not walk alone.
My heart will be your shelter,
And my arms will be your home. ~ Author Unknown

Quote of the day…

“Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.” ~ Goncourt

Quote for the day…

“True love is not measured in hugs and kisses, but in struggles and fears, and those who can work though those…they possess true love”. Adam Murphy

Quote for the day…

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” Elie Wiesel

I Am Grateful

It’s the middle of the night and I can’t sleep.

So I lie here and listen to my husband breath. It’s reassuring. Just to know that he is with me, loves me.

It’s quiet, the rain has slowed after many days,  the fan blows gently to keep us cool in the middle of this steamy Summer.

And I am grateful.

I have love.

And I am grateful.

I have more possessions than I need.

And I am grateful.

I have friends I love and who love me.

And I am grateful.

We have very little money, and yet we get by.

And I am grateful.

I’ve travelled. Seen the worst of the world like the poverty in Mumbai, and the best in the world like Florence.

And I am grateful.

Where do I stop, there is so much to be grateful for, from earth to heaven and everything in between, God gave us so much to be grateful for, so no complaints from me.

I am grateful.