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A friend asked another "What is forever?" The other friend replied "It means for always."
Experiences which delight the heart -- or expectations met -- or struggles rewarded -- and many more which take you up to cloud 9 in utter happiness, making you want to stay in that moment without end.
'Forever' has been carelessly thrown around and about in telenobelas,
movies, celebrity interviews, chats, reminiscences, expectations, and is
contained in young hopes and dreams and longing.
But life, in spite of its nuggets of wisdom and feel-good-lessons, won't always agree with you as you will discover soon enough.
Because.......
Marriages and relationships crumble. Couples separate or divorce. Fortunes are lost. Financial charts perform dismally. Homes are broken. Families become dysfunctional. Health falters. Plans go awry at that point when you begin to think everything is going well. Good becomes bad. Laughter turns to tears.
Pray tell me then, what makes a moment 'forever?
Perhaps this ..... ? .....
--- When couples work hard to keep the relationship going, when the team knock their brains out in solving problems at the workplace, when a husband or wife work together to preserve family, when options are created even if doors have closed, when courage and strength is renewed again and again... and again!
And not because they have to or should, but because of what is felt in the heart. LOVE. Pure plain simple... love.
The love to help... to share... to succeed... to survive... to foster peace... to care and protect... to be faithful, truthful and honest... to rise with every fall... to pray unceasingly... to understand and act accordingly... to build and not to destroy. Love makes the doing special. Love makes it worthy. Love makes you want to do it over and over, again and again . And happily at that.
But, I think, still that does not assure forever in the external meaning of things or in the general expectations of many or most.
Rather it does this ------ it keeps the moment alive and strong for the longest possible time. The special and treasured moment lives on longer in the heart where it is nurtured and fed with love each time. Every minute, every hour, every day, every year of your life. Wonderfully enduring moments to last you possibly a lifetime if you strive to work at it.
Moments endure where love is.
May God bless you with His love, peace, and the grace to endure through life's journey. In Christ.
But life, in spite of its nuggets of wisdom and feel-good-lessons, won't always agree with you as you will discover soon enough.
Because.......
Marriages and relationships crumble. Couples separate or divorce. Fortunes are lost. Financial charts perform dismally. Homes are broken. Families become dysfunctional. Health falters. Plans go awry at that point when you begin to think everything is going well. Good becomes bad. Laughter turns to tears.
Pray tell me then, what makes a moment 'forever?
Perhaps this ..... ? .....
--- When couples work hard to keep the relationship going, when the team knock their brains out in solving problems at the workplace, when a husband or wife work together to preserve family, when options are created even if doors have closed, when courage and strength is renewed again and again... and again!
And not because they have to or should, but because of what is felt in the heart. LOVE. Pure plain simple... love.
The love to help... to share... to succeed... to survive... to foster peace... to care and protect... to be faithful, truthful and honest... to rise with every fall... to pray unceasingly... to understand and act accordingly... to build and not to destroy. Love makes the doing special. Love makes it worthy. Love makes you want to do it over and over, again and again . And happily at that.
But, I think, still that does not assure forever in the external meaning of things or in the general expectations of many or most.
Rather it does this ------ it keeps the moment alive and strong for the longest possible time. The special and treasured moment lives on longer in the heart where it is nurtured and fed with love each time. Every minute, every hour, every day, every year of your life. Wonderfully enduring moments to last you possibly a lifetime if you strive to work at it.
Moments endure where love is.
May God bless you with His love, peace, and the grace to endure through life's journey. In Christ.
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