Spring Love

What a couple of days it has been!

My laptop is down and the inconvenience of going downstairs into the cold family room has kept me from writing to you. So sorry.

But I pray for you all the time.

What a winter! The spring-like sun is attacking the snow and the weather is getting a little bit warmer. The world feels alive today. Hey, I think there was a little more color out there too.

For most of us the winter is dark, colorless and depressing. God manages to place his beauty everywhere though, whether in the icicles on the tree branches or a frozen lake topped with brilliantly bright snow. We stay inside to escape the cold, but we miss out on the elegance of the wintry season our Lord creates for our eyes only.

But spring, oh sweet spring. God's really outdone himself in spring time with all the cacophony of colors and sounds, that warm weather embracing you. All the magical things that can happen during spring time can't be ignored. God is the king of romance and wooing.

Today, whether it's the weather outside, or the warm hearth of love aflame in my heart, I feel like singing (not a great singer) and dancing. I feel like giving all of me to the world. I feel loved and in love. Jesus is wonderful, isn't He? He's put a little spring into my step too. And it feels so good this sensation that I want to multiply it and give it out like a pill. This is what love should feel like.

Thanks JJ Heller for this one. St. Valentine's Day was yesterday, but who says you can't be shown love everyday?

He cries in the corner where nobody sees
He’s the kid with the story no one would believe
He prays every night “Dear God won’t you please...
Could you send someone here who will love me?”

Who will love me for me
Not for what I have done or what I will become
Who will love me for me
‘Cause nobody has shown me what love
What love really means what love really means

Her office is shrinking a little each day
She’s the woman whose husband has run away
She’ll go to the gym after working today
Maybe if she was thinner then he would’ve stayed
And she says…

Who will love me for me?
Not for what I have done or what I will become
Who will love me for me?
‘Cause nobody has shown me what love
What love really means what love really means

He’s waiting to die as he sits all alone
He’s a man in a cell who regrets what he’s done
He utters a cry from the depths of his soul
“Oh Lord, forgive me. I want to go home”

Then he heard a voice somewhere deep inside
And it said “I know you’ve murdered
And I know you’ve lied
And I have watched you suffer all of your life
And now that you’ll listen I’ll tell you that I...”

I will love you for you
Not for what you have done or what you will become
I will love you for you
I will give you the love, the love that you never knew

I will love you for you
Not for what you have done or what you will become
I will love you for you
I will give you the love, the love that you never knew

I love you all and God bless!