Wedding Bells!

this saturday.

february 13, 2010.

i.

am.

marrying.

my kindred fella.

and

my

heart

is

so

happy

and

grateful!

...the sweeter the song

Saw Crazy Heart yesterday with my sweetie.  Loved it.  It's seriously the best movie I've seen in a long time.  And I love the tagline:  The harder the life, the sweeter the song...  Check it out!

Your Forever

(Source Unknown)

Not talkin' 'bout a year

no not three or four
I don't want that kind of forever
in my life anymore
forever always seems
to be around when it begins
but forever never seems
to be around when it ends
so give me your forever
please your forever
not a day less will do
from you

People spend so much time
every single day
runnin' 'round all over town
givin' their forever away
but no not me
I won't let my forever roam
and now I hope I can find
my forever a home
so give me your forever
please your forever
not a day less will do
from you

Like a handless clock with numbers
an infinite of time
no not the forever found
only in the mind
forever always seems
to be around when things begin
but forever never seems
to be around when things end
so give me your forever
please your forever
not a day less will do
from you
-Ben Harper

Love what it loves...

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
-Mary Oliver

Give All

Give all to love;
Obey thy heart;
Friends, kindred, days,
Estate, good fame,
Plans, credit, and the muse;
Nothing refuse.

'Tis a brave master,
Let it have scope,
Follow it utterly,
Hope beyond hope;
High and more high,
It dives into noon,
With wing unspent,
Untold intent;
But 'tis a god,
Knows its own path,
And the outlets of the sky.
'Tis not for the mean,
It requireth courage stout,
Souls above doubt,
Valor unbending;
Such 'twill reward,
They shall return
More than they were,
And ever ascending.

Leave all for love;—
Yet, hear me, yet,
One word more thy heart behoved,
One pulse more of firm endeavor,
Keep thee to-day,
To-morrow, for ever,
Free as an Arab
Of thy beloved.
Cling with life to the maid;
But when the surprise,
Vague shadow of surmise,
Flits across her bosom young
Of a joy apart from thee,
Free be she, fancy-free,
Do not thou detain a hem,
Nor the palest rose she flung
From her summer diadem.

Though thou loved her as thyself,
As a self of purer clay,
Tho' her parting dims the day,
Stealing grace from all alive,
Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not one is missing...

St. Augustine, FL

"Look up into the Heavens.

Who created all the stars?

He brings them out like an army,

One after another,

Calling each by its name.

Because of his great power

and incomparable strength,

not a single one is missing."

Isaiah 40:26

Redeemed

(Source unknown)

I am in a place in my life when I see how beautiful redemption is.
So many moments I spent in pain, hurt, anger - are now replaced with joy and contentment and peace.
Despair is replaced by dreams coming true.
Not sure of all the words, but am oh, so thankful!
Be blessed today, dear hearts...