Tag Archives: love
seek thou joy.
“Go forth, my heart, and seek thou joy.” Paul Gerhardt Joy is found by those who search and see. Shuffling in a life less than, marred by mistakes, taken by circumstance, wilted in days echoing hollowly. It is easy for … Continue reading
affectionately known as mumzi.
:: by Marguerite Delcambre We all grow in the soil of family cultivated and nurtured around us. In that soil we stretch out, push into the dirt and feel life all around. There are rocks and weeds and roots that … Continue reading
Daddy’s standard.
:: by Rachel McGowan The reason I have such high expectations in my future husband is because of the way my daddy loves me. I am my father’s first born, his only daughter, a full-blooded daddy’s girl, and the second … Continue reading
what makes love live.
“Well, do you love her?” Quiet. Blank stare. Long. His look part anger, part remembering, part brokenness. I had no wise words to offer greater than the realization settling back into his world. Something blocked it all, what he … Continue reading
one word. what is it?
One word, singular and bare, complete and roaming still, shadow cast deeply, widely into future sleeping. A word, one, that stands tall and soars at its mention and holds hope, fear and all forgetting. Cutting honest through cluttered thoughts and … Continue reading
love in words.
hearts collide bruise | bend | break | bellow to be free to know at the edge holding hands finger in knuckle lost in grasp feet planted dirty want. to give. scenes and history blurred into one beautiful mystery escaping … Continue reading
the discipline of love.
“Love is friendship set on fire.” Jeremy Taylor “Does everyone leave?” My daughter, aged young, eyes wide observing, told me stories about friends’ families broken or breaking. There was a curiosity in her asking. A wondering of love building expectations … Continue reading