Love...

Romantic Love

Feeling the love at My Sister's wedding

Writing this entry is challenging. Throughout history people have written countless truths about love that with age, I have come to understand and appreciate. We grow up and we learn to love differently; deeper and stronger...or sometimes we become guarded and withdrawn. Either way, to open your heart to love is to take a risk. Recently coming out of a particularly difficult patch of heartbreak, I know what this "risk" is....I know how pain can change you. But would I take it back? Do I regret it? 

Today I look in the mirror and I see me differently. Though outwardly I look the same, I am...changed. This is what love does...cuts through the fabric of your spirit and fashions a new design. So yes, I would love again...deeper and stronger than before because to live is to love, and to love is to grow!

Here's something I wrote a while back, it's quite personal but I've decided I'll share it regardless...Perhaps you can relate? Here it is:

I think of you

In the stillness of the early morning

I should be sleeping

But the pain

Memories flood my mind

And there is nothing I can do

To erase them

And the pain...

Runs through me

Breaking into my quiet mind

Holding on to my heart

Changing me

Changing me

Pictures of us

Things that you said

The way you laughed

Make me cry

Stories you told

Words I cannot forget

The joy I felt

And so the pain...

Runs through me

Breaking into my quiet mind

Holding on to my heart

Changing me

Changing me

Yes, we are changed by love.The best of us...even those of us who have found their soul-mate are still tested. Love is challenging but there is no greater joy than the wisdom it brings. So friends... breathe love into every aspect of your life and be renewed!

From my heart to yours

Jay