A Love Story...

Love...

Logic says...run...

Logic says...hide...turtle...deflect...protect...guard...

Love defies all logic, does it not?

Love says...hope...

Love says...believe...

Love says...rise again and give love...mete out love where you can...

Love says...proffer acceptance and compassion...kindness...long-suffering...

We are but a vessel...a vessel filled with the Love of the Father...blessed at birth with a wealth of love too big to house in our tiny bodies...we smile, we laugh...we love...

'Grief is love with nowhere to go...' (Three Pines)

We live...oh how we live...we take in every pleasure, wring every drop from experiences...live for the next joyful moment....our joy is infinitely tied to our sorrow.

The amount of joy we feel is tied to the amount of sorrow, sadness and grief we have lived with.

The highs...oh, the lows....the depths to which we as a singular species can descend is overwhelmingly profound.

The lesson...the lesson is in learning to release the grief, release the despair and sorrow that weights each step with concrete...

Releasing....accepting.....coming to terms with the loss of a loved one...through the passing away, through the heartache of a break-up, the leaving behind the one you love knowing you can no longer live with the pain of abuse...the pain of loving someone more than they love you.

Possibility lays on the horizon...hope over the top of that mountain...love on the other side of that wide, wide valley strewn with the bones of the past, littered with the recriminations and refuse of regret, of sorrow.

Love...again...one day this will all seem like a bad dream...a horrible nightmare that leaves you sweaty, gasping for air....each dissipating in the warm light of dawn, dispersing in fragments of colour filling the sky....

It is impossible to believe such beautiful hearts, damaged though they may be, could ever ever deny love in all its beauty, grandeur and joy-filled gooey moments.

No...dear hearts, dear friends....as far as the East is from the West, so too shall this be removed from you. This pain...this sorrow...shall pass.

Your future is not written...yet...your present is where you live and love and breathe...with each breath you grow stronger...mightier...

You, my friends, are warriors and capable of creating a future bright with promise...brightened by the love you give out and elevated by the love you take in...

You....are....loved...as you are. Hug that small child, smile at that sad stranger, deliver that kind word to the woman standing in line....and watch your strength grow, see your grace and dignity rise from the depths...

You are loved, you gloriously capable creatures...loved for who you are, right now... right here in the place you stand. Oh, I know...the place you stand may look so incredibly desolate, empty, dry as dust...but look around you once more as the minutes, the hours, the days creep by...see the green shoots pushing through rocky ground seeking sustenance...let it rain, let the tears fall and water the ground you stand on...this is healing ground, holy and hallowed. And it is yours...yours to water, to nurse along and take joy in, as you see the damaged foundations of your soul, spirit and body spring to life once again.

Oh yes...I see it...even in the midst of sorrow I see the growth...I turn in slow circles and observe all that God has done; all that the many drops and deposits of love and healing rain of tears has accomplished...and it is good.

Love....again...

I'll return to love 
And risk it all
Per regalarti un mondo
And I'll return to love 
E resterò
Per costruire un sogno
One more time

Who cares about the past?
Who knows about tomorrow?
L'amore è adesso
And maybe this won't last
Maybe this moment's all we have
Let's find out
And though I'm still afraid
You're worth a leap of faith

Andrea Bocelli/Ellie Goulding

You...yes you...you are worth the leap of faith...and though it may lead to sorrow, you will know that you were brave enough, wise enough to accept that which you cannot change and to take another chance on living life to the fullest. Always....