Love – The Lost Journals of St. Valentine (pt3)

February 12, 2011

The bittersweet “Lost Journals” of St. Valentine continue to unfold here.  Love is at the heart of this Saint, and he is at the heart of the holiday. If you missed part one it is here, and part two, is on Love’s twin blog, here. Please read those and you will know more about St. […]

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Love – The Lost Journals of St. Valentine (pt 1)

February 11, 2011

The year was 269 AD. The place: Italy. The Emperor Claudius outlaws marriage in the Empire. His hopes? To increase the size of the army – with men having no ties to a wife. There was one man who defied the edict. These are the long lost journals of that man. The Bishop of Interamna. […]

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Love seeks the “Why” of the “Do” How’d that work for me?

February 10, 2011

On Tuesday I promised that for a whole day I would love like this: I’d honestly, truly, ask, and ask, and ask, the why’s behind the acts and words of everybody with whom I come in contact. I thought I’d tell you how that went. Wow. I would have missed so much If I just […]

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Love sometimes gets married – A prayer (Part 4 of 4)

February 9, 2011

I have never had a bride. And so when Ann first said “Let’s discuss the practice of marriage I felt like sitting this one out. But then I remembered that it’s not my opinion that counts – but God’s. So the last three weeks I’ve buried myself in Scripture – to discover what it said […]

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Love seeks to understand “why” of the “do”

February 8, 2011

I don’t know what it’s like to live in constant mind numbing pain. I don’t know what it’s like to have to deal with the emotional aftermath of infidelity. I don’t know what it’s like having a sick or dying child. Up until a few years back, not knowing these things didn’t bother me too […]

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Love says thank you a thousand times (#54-72)

February 7, 2011

I am thankful… #54 …for snow when it falls muffled, tranquil, and serene, like fairies descending from the sky – wafting down to greet the earth. #55 …that my mom, who is no longer on this earth, is still very much alive. #56…that she does not live on “in my memories”. Because memories don’t sustain […]

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Love trudges through weariness, weakness and doesn’t give up

February 4, 2011

I’m thinking today of you who are wanting to give up. I’m with you. I know how heavy a load can be, how failure stings like a scorpion and leaves you almost as dead as a real one would. I know how it is to wish the clock would stop ticking for one… darned  second. […]

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