All we need is love

 

                                    
Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.
Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.     -Nicolaus Sparks 
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Love is a many splendored thing!

I am thinking that love is sometimes not doing something.
Maybe some things I do are unloving. I am still learning.  I can change,  with God's help. 
All I must do,  is remember to do all things with love!

Love is not criticizing your tweenage granddaughter's too-grown-up outfit, but telling her how pretty she is, because you know that good self-esteem will produce better behavior.
Love is not mentioning to your daughter-in-law that there are no vegetables on the dinner table, but telling her the boxed mac&cheese is tasty.
Love is not complaining to your husband that your house is run down, but trying to make it as nice a home as you can.
Love is not saying you're too busy, but listening to your family member, and making  adjustments  to your schedule even if you have to give up something occasionally.
Love is not sharing horror stories about medical procedures and childbirth, but listening, making empathetic comments, and sharing in their unique experience.
Love is not bursting their bubble, knowing when to keep it to yourself.
Love is not giving advice when it isn't asked for.

 Love is what's left in a relationship
 after all the selfishness has been removed.
- Gullen Hightower

All we need is love!



What a grand thing to be loved!
What a grander thing still to love!
                                  -Victor Hugo



                                                         

Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm

It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm

In those times of trouble when you are most alone

the memory of love will bring you home...

If I should live forever and all my dreams come true

My memory of love will be of you.

                                                      -John Denver

There is no remedy for love than to love more.
                                   -Henry David Thoreau

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life, that word is love.

                                                               -Sophocles

"The Love Chapter"   My favorite scripture

If I speak in human and angelic tongues, but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.

And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge, if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast,

 but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous, is not pompous, it is not inflated,

 it is not rude,it does not seek it's own interests,it is not quick tempered,

 it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails.

So faith, hope, love remain, these three, but the greatest of these is love. 

                                     -  I Corinthians 13   NIV





Love is always bestowed as a gift-
freely, willingly, and without expectation..
we don't love to be loved, we love to love.



                               - Leo Buscaglia

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your home.

 Give love to your children, to a wife or husband,

to a next door neighbor.-Mother Teresa


Happy Valentine's Day!

                                                  

              

One-handed blogging --Grandma on duty

"It is as grandmothers that our mothers come
 into the fullness of their grace."
                                                   -Christopher Morley

(I wrote this two months ago!)      

      I'm holding Tommy, who's my four-month-old grandson, because he is starting to whine, and doesn't want to nap. Uh-oh! He is just learning this whining thing, to get our attention.  He likes me to rock him and sing softly.  My daughter and I believe that we can't spoil him with too much cuddling.   I  am going to begin caring for him as she returns to work.  I think I can begin to sell my vintage  and handcrafted items online, and check on the online shop when he snoozes or while he's playing nearby in his jumpy seat. 

"Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us
 for growing old"
                                                                      -Mary H. Waldrip

 "I am in my glory"  when I'm with my precious grandboy.  I feel  so sublimely happy and  very nostalgic.  There are frequent pauses, I'm struggling to type with one hand, and stopping whenever he needs something, (have to blog in stages) because that's what you have to do, with a baby in the house. But I feel my creative juices flowing!
 

"Just remember, in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow,
lies the seed , that with the sun's love,
 in the spring, becomes the rose."---Bette Midler's song

   Often, we look at  pretty blogs and I tell him, that someday I will have a pretty little cottage and a lovely garden.  I want to share in his childhood and teach him everything I know about simple, healthy living and good old-fashioned ways.


Little boy , image courtesy of  free<3.pretty<3 things<3for<3you


  I know he will love my garden and he will grow pretty blossoms for his mommy. 

Oh dear, I hope the fishies are safely burrowed down deep,in this frozen little pond!

      We will have a little pond, some fishes and a big ole' bullfrog.  Maybe if  we are out in the country a little bit, we will get a few chickens,so we can always have fresh eggs,and I want him to learn all about animals. 
 I actually dream of raising alpaca and selling their fabulous wool. 

Our big ole' bullfrog, he helps keep the mosquito population down!

                

     Most importantly, I want him to know about the power of positive thinking and that the most important thing in the whole wide world is that we all love one another.  I want him to have solid values, appreciate nature, art and the simple things in life.  I take my role of Grandma very seriously, but it is also a license to play and be silly and let the child in me come out!  I want to tell  him all of the important things I have learned, and share the family's history with him.

      Oh, the dreams of his future, and sharing in his life give me renewed purpose and beautiful hopes.  If I can help just this one child on his journey, I will have made a difference.

Love, Linda