10-14 Get up, my dear friend,
fair and beautiful lover—come to me!
Look around you: Winter is over;
the winter rains are over, gone!
Spring flowers are in blossom all over.
The whole world's a choir—and singing!
Spring warblers are filling the forest
with sweet arpeggios.
Lilacs are exuberantly purple and perfumed,
and cherry trees fragrant with blossoms.
Oh, get up, dear friend,
my fair and beautiful lover—come to me!
Come, my shy and modest dove—
leave your seclusion, come out in the open.
Let me see your face,
let me hear your voice.
For your voice is soothing
and your face is ravishing.
Song of Songs 2:10-14
There are times when as a man I stop and look around at what reality is. In those times my wife is a gift and blessing beyond compare. A pearl of great price. Terri helps to make sense out of life.
Once you experience love it is hard to forget it. Even when pressures or circumstances push us about. Love still comes again and again to remind us why we are living.
I think too that God gives us relationships to experience love. If we open our hearts to love then it takes hold and begins to burn brighter and brighter.
A couple months ago a young couple was looking at property with me and the young man asked about marriage. Honestly I said, it is better than I ever could have imagined. Not to say there may be difficult times but love has a way of overpowering those difficulties.
I think too of the story of the prodigal son. The love of the father never changed with either son. The two son's perceptions of their father were wrong, but he chose to love them, no matter what. I am not sure the father had any other choice. That is a love to aspire to.
So stop on your walk through this life. Look for the love in your life.
Keep walkin,
Ron
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