Consider yourself hugged

Friendship is a special Gift

Today is Valentine day and friends come easily to mind. Some of you are personal friends and some of you I have never met but I like to think we all have a universal heart filled with yearnings and dreams, joy and sorrow, loves and fears.

And so, I want to tell you

(whoever you are) that

"You are Dear!"

It is a blessing beyond telling

to know that there is someone

"dear" out there,

someone with whom we can connect:

in frantic, disheartening, confusing moments

in joyful, grateful, enchanting, creative moments.

Thanks for being so dear

as to step into the pages of my life!

CONSIDER YOURSELF HUGGED!

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Below you will find some HAIKU

that I lifted out of the softwhare of my heart!

O friend of my heart

Mysterious Loveliness

What Heaven have you come from?

Memory of You

in my crankiest of moods

Still mellows my heart.

In the bagel shop

Over steaming cups of coffee

Sharing our hearts out.

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Like fresh air in life

Oh, you are necessity

More than luxury.

Do you remember

the carefee moments

of our younger years?

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In my book of life

I slowly turn over a page

and you are waiting.

TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON

IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD!

~~Les Miserables

FALLING IN LOVE, STAYING IN LOVE

I know that Lent is just around the corner; but I can't get my mind off Valentine's Day!

“Nothing is more practical
than finding God,
that is, than falling in love
in a quite absolute, final way.

What you are in love with,
what seizes your imagination,
will affect everything.

It will decide what will
get you out of bed in the mornings,
what you will do with your evenings,
how you spend your weekends,
what you read, who you know,
what breaks your heart, and
what amazes you with joy
and gratitude.

Fall in love, stay in love,
and it will decide everything.”

-Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ