If love is a many splendored thing,
how many splendors does it have?
One: its warm comfort, two: strength,
three, its power to grow
Wait! There’s so much more!
I’ve decided
not to count.
Love is
all.
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Author Notes
With all the songs, poems, movies, and plays about 'love', you'd think we understand it. But it's beyond us.
The first line of the poem is taken from a song, Love is a Many Splendid Thing, sung by Andy Williams. I remember hearing it as a kid and looking forward to having that kind of love. I do. (MOST of the time! lol)
I think I Corinthians 13: 4-8a says it best.
"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends."
That's a tall order, at least for me. I take GREAT comfort in knowing that, since God is the embodiment of love, this is how He loves me.
And me? I'm working on it! :)
Thank y'all for reading. Blessings to each of you.
8 Love never ends.
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