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Monday Memories: Affirming Love

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From Song of Solomon 2:8:  “The voice of my beloved!  Look, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills.”

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Sitting here, another morning’s darkness

Thinking of today’s most beautiful view

Your kindness and love arrives with a smile

Transforming this heart to radiant new

 

Traveling life’s lonely, meaningless road

Dreaming of unlocking a better life

Your cherished spirit bestows precious light

Joining together as husband and wife

 

Making beloved home for two love birds

Nurturing passion with each priceless day

Your tender, caring thoughts lead us forward

Navigating with God’s love, shows His way

 

Affirming love through joyful affection

Walking in Jesus’ perfect reflection

 

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From Song of Solomon 4:1:  “How beautiful you are, my love, how very beautiful!  Your eyes are doves behind your veil.  Your hair is like a flock of goats, moving down the slopes of Gilead.”

Originally published January, 2021.

Union as One (Haiku Series #351)

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Man joined with woman

Sharing love throughout each day—

Breath of daily grace

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United

Sun rises each morn

Togetherness in spirit—

Forever in love

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Embraced

Love’s eternal flame

Burning by day as well as night—

Lifetime’s treasured gift

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Herbert V. Prochnow Quotes

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It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.

Herbert V. Prochnow (1897-1998) was an American banking executive, speaker, and writer.

Love’s Highest Prize

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From 1 Corinthians 13:4-7:  “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.  It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth.  It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

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Father smiles from above

Witnessing two people in love

 

Man sees sparkle in her eyes

Sharing heart, love’s necktie

 

Woman gifting her heart

Cherishing love’s treasured start

 

Tomorrow’s outlook brightens

Feeling love’s reins tighten

 

Spirit joins together

Fashioning love’s tether

 

Marriage vows expressing love

Walking with Christ above

 

Love’s most tender flower

Flourishing with every hour

 

Spirit’s eternal imprint

Sealing love’s fingerprint

 

Love maturing as one

Praising choices in God’s Son

 

Father blessing love’s fresh start

Bringing grace to each heart

 

New day welcomes sunrise

Affirming love’s highest prize

 

What wondrous love now received

Trusting what Father conceived

 

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This poem comes from the hearts of two people who discovered each other nearly 20 years ago.  With our faith nourished by God’s grace, He continues to walk with both of us.

— Richard and Colleen

Ruth Bell Graham Quote

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A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

From Mark 11:25:  “Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.”

Ruth Bell Graham (1920-2007) was an American Christian author.  Born to American parents who were dedicated to medical missionary work in China, she would later become the wife of evangelist Billy Graham.  They met when both were attending Wheaton College in Illinois.

Fountain of Life (Haiku Series #320)

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Cherished

Tender memories

Child’s early steps remembered—

Milestones filled with love

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Determined

Young boy clearing path

Throwing shoveled snow behind—

Never looking back

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Loved

Coming dearest wife

Arriving in a jiffy—

Lifetime partnership

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Walter Cronkite Quotes

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Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor.

I never had the ambition to be something.  I had the ambition to do something.

Walter Cronkite (1916-2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchor for the CBS Evening News (1962-1981).  His closing words at the end of each newscast read as “And that’s the way it is.”  The news stories he covered made up a litany of American history’s most significant moments in the 1960s and 1970s.  He was often cited as “the most trusted man in America” during his time as news anchor.

Cherished (Haiku Series #303)

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Faith

Most precious union

Trusted journey of marriage—

Love expressed each day

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Hope

Treasured daily gift

Twin hearts always together—

Love’s refreshing breath

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Peace

Couple sharing joy

Transforming experience—

Harmony’s grace sings

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John Chrysostom Quote

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The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.

From Matthew 19:4-6:  “He answered, ‘Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?  So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

John Chrysostom served the early Christian church during the late 4th century and early 5th century in Constantinople where he preached and was a prolific writer.

Monday Memories: Love Sings Hallelujah

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From Genesis 2:24:  “Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.”

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Creating a rainbow, love inspires

Connecting two lives, becoming one

Merging together, feelings inside

Celebrating, we’ve only begun

 

Meeting at life’s crossroads, love brings truth

Confessing before our Lord, now one

Living as a twosome, sharing love

Spending time together, never done

 

Cherishing our love, always special

Sharing our dreams, dwelling between us

Leading us on a life adventure

Capturing a moment, on life’s bus

 

Depending on each other, love bonds

Growing tired of each other, never

Celebrating God’s gifts, shared with us

Changing our minds about us, never

 

Weathering life’s storms, love conquers all

Singing Hallelujah, love declares

Leaning on each other, love endures

Treasuring us, God’s love truly cares

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From 1 Corinthians 13:4-7:  “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.  It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth.  It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

Originally published April, 2020.