swept away

I want to be swept off my feet...

I want to be showered with hugs and kisses,

love notes and, every once in awhile, flowers.

...flowers drawn and colored on loose leaf paper will do, if that's all we can afford.

I want to be admired by you...

I want to catch you sneaking glances at me and when you think I'm not looking.

I want you to hold me extra close in the midst of a hug just to smell the scent of me.

I want to be surprised by you...

I want you to stop by where ever I am just to say "Hi" or "I love you."

I want to be swept off my feet...

I want to be adored by you...

I want you to roll your eyes at my girly quirks,
followed by a "that's why I love you" look.

I want you to find me irresistible...
I want you to scheme ways to get next to me.
I want to feel your caress when you're near.

...I want to be swept off my feet...by you.

This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. 

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.

Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.

Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. 

Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.

It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

beauty from darkness

Beautiful pictures are developed from negatives in a dark room...So if you see darkness in your life, be reassured that a beautiful picture is being prepared.

picture from: here

A Beautiful Heart

A young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in it.

But an old man appeared at the front of the crowd and said, “Your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine.”

The crowd and the young man looked at the old man’s heart. It was beating strongly but full of scars. It had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in … but they didn’t fit quite right and there were several jagged edges. The young man looked at the old man’s heart and laughed.

“You must be joking,” he said. “Compare your heart with mine … mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears.”

“Yes,” said the old man, “Yours is perfect looking … but I would never trade with you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love….. I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them … and often they give me a piece of their heart which fits into the empty place in my heart but because the pieces aren’t exact, I have some rough edges.

“ Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away … and the other person hasn’t returned a piece of his heart to me. These are the empty gouges … giving love is taking a chance. Although these gouges are painful, they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for these people too … and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting. So now do you see what true beauty is?”

The young man stood silently with tears running down his cheeks. He walked up to the old man, reached into his perfect young and beautiful heart, and ripped a piece out. He offered it to the old man.

The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart and then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young man’s heart.

It fit …. but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges.

The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since lovefrom the old man’s heart flowed into his.

from: Paulo Coelho Blog

God didn't say life was going to be easy, but he did promise with him it would be possible.

You know you have found the person you want to be with for the rest of your life when you are willing to give up your dreams for them... But they won't let you do that.

Photo by : Bogdan Dascalescu

http://photography.dbogdan.com/index.php?showimage=57

3 Lessons

So I've learned a few things this week. I think I've always known these things but they just really "clicked" for me recently.

1) "The best thing about the future is it happenes one day at a time." -Abraham Lincoln

2) I am the Lord's beloved ...enough said.

3) Life is better when God is in it. He really has done great things, He really is doing great things, and He really will do great things (....you just have to be open and willing to let Him).