I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world ~ Mother Teresa
Funny how I always think of these words on Holy Friday. Being a Greek Orthodox I've never quite understood why Holy Friday is also called Good Friday. Certainly, it wasn't a good day for Mary - Jesus' mum. Her lamentations are heartbreaking
Ω γλυκυ μου εαρ γλυκυτατον μου τεκνον
(Oh my sweet offspring, my sweet child)
Virgin Mary suffered her son's loss like an ordinary mother who mourns for her son's loss. The king of kings,however, did not hesitate to wash his disciples' feet just before his betrayal by Judas and his Crucifixion.
And while Jesus' mother was lamenting, while He was still on the Cross, He did find the strength to whisper:
Πατερ αφες αυτοις, ου γαρ οιδασι τι ποιουσι
(Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing)
When someone in our family dies, we often ask ourselves what their last words were. Most of us want to know if we really understood how much we loved them!
Shakespeare once wrote in his play Richard II…The tongues of dying men--Enforce attention like deep harmony--Where words are scarce--They are seldom spent in vain--For they breathe truth--That breathe their words in pain.
Jesus' words in pain breathe truth and they should be a lesson of unconditional love.
We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen
You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown
True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them. ~Author Unknown
You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown
Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown
I ran up the door, opened the stairs, said my pajamas and put on my prayers - turned off my bed, tumbled into my light, and all because he kissed me good-night! ~Author Unknown
Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown
For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~Rosemonde Gerard
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown
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