Browsing Tag: love
ACT OF THE WILL
“Love is not primarily an emotion, but an act of the will.”—Bishop Robert Barron There are many days I don’t feel love, not in the way most often imagined. I don’t wake, heart aglow with passion or elation for another. As years pass, people and passions change. It’s not what it was when […]
WHEN YOU LIVE IT
I wrote a new story today, posted up on its own page: WHEN YOU LIVE IT
AGAPE
Love, it is a loaded word, and so we shy away Even when it is, precise, the one we mean to say. Affinity, goodwill, wanting for another only best. Isn’t all this love? Why insinuate the rest? Love can be for spirit, for heart as well as mind. Isn’t this the love for soul […]
SPECIAL
“I found your website today,” my son told me. He searched for it during computer time at school when they are given time to read and learn on their own. He searched for it last week but didn’t know the address. I showed him when he told me that he couldn’t find it, and […]
CHANGE THE WORLD
“The world is shaped by force. It is changed by love.” I wrote this quick thought this morning reflecting on how I’ve best been affected and influenced in my own life. In the Marines, often we try and shape conditions by the amount of force we bring to bear for a targeted effect. It usually […]
LIVING LOVE
My heart is filled with a Love That wasn’t there before. It isn’t something ugly. It is something I adore. Whatever is the source; If judged, as some always will, It raises me up And makes me better still For anyone my life may bring Me near, or to, or for; To give […]
BE THERE FOR A FRIEND (KYLE’s)
Be there for a friend:Any way you can.Be there for a friend:When he takes a woman’s hand. Be there for a friend:When he gives to her his name.Be there for a friend:In those moments when life’s changed. Be there for a friend:When his future’s realized.Be there for a friend:When he sees it’s in her eyes.
GIVE IT. LIVE IT.
Give love. Share love.Make it too.Give the glow that is of you To the ones that raise your light,Build it up and keep it bright. Life’s too short to hide such away.Give it. Live it. Share it today.
#sharejoy (made a book)
Writing a book: it’s something I’ve always thought about, never chased, but now I have. Last fall, reading Shel Silverstein poems before bed, my son asked me to make him a book with my poems. He finds me in the mornings writing at a table in our living room. He sees the journals I carry […]