March Twenty-Fifteen

Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that. Ephesians 5:1-2 The Message

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet 

and the winds long to play with your hair. 

-  Kahlil Gibran The Prophet

When Anne and I go out for a walk

We hold each other’s hands and talk

Of all the things we mean to do

When Anne and I are 42

And when we’ve thought about a thing

Like bowling hoops of bicycling,

Or falling down on Anne’s balloon.

We do these in the afternoon.

-A. A. Milne  Now we are Six 

i thank You God for most this amazing

day: for leaping greenly spirits of trees 

and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything

which is natural which is infinite which is yes 

-ee cummings 

such a gift to be a part of Jens and Abby's amazing weekend in South Carolina

 and to officiate their wedding at a sunrise service on Pi Day! 3-14-15 

http://celebrate-2day.blogspot.com/2015/03/3-14-15.html

Marriage is a path that teaches us to love ourselves and love someone else better … especially when it is most difficult to do.  When we extend grace to ourselves and to our partner, we seek to understand instead of condemn and we learn to love. God’s shaping of our character is made manifest in this open hearted, courageous, vulnerable daily practice of love.

"So this is love, as demanding and nourishing and difficult as it can be, and as strong and wise as it makes you become. There is something to be gained from commitment. There are rewards for staying when you would rather leave. And there is something to be said for running up that hill when you would rather slide down it. And so you let love come perch upon your shoulder. And you do not turn it away. You do the tango.  Just do it."  -Nike 

I arise today with spring in my eyes:

Clear circling air

Shining inspiration

Wings of hope

Unfolding buds

Happy roots

Blossoms of joy

Necessary storms.

This is my inheritance in this vibrant new season.

I arise today in the wings of spring.

-Macrina Wiederkehr

The Circle of Life

Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –

When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;         

   Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush         

Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring         

The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;

   The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush         

   The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush         

With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.          

What is all this juice and all this joy?

-Gerard Manley Hopkins