Some things are beyond words. Nothing we can articulate quite captures the feelings we want to convey. Maybe that’s why Alma describes the expression of our feelings as we recognize our deliverance, our salvation, our escape from eternal peril as a song. The wonder of redeeming love requires something in addition to words to proclaim. …
‘Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees, takes off his shoes, The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries, And daub their natural faces unaware.’ (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Lee) I have spent the last while traveling and gathering, and this thought from Elizabeth Barrett Browning …
We throw the word ‘love’ around a lot. We love sports teams and food and spa days and luxury cars. We love places and memories and attributes in ourselves and others (all good things!). We love people. It is in those (healthy) relationships that we get a glimpse of what Christ’s love looks like. Selflessness …
We’ve had two weddings in two months in our family, so love is definitely in the air. Love is one of those words that is both a noun and a verb. Our culture emphasizes the noun form of this word, the emotion or feeling, referring to “falling in (or out of) love” as if it …
“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” (1 John 4:8) John knew this because of what he witnessed as an apostle and follower of Jesus Christ. He walked and talked with Him. Experienced the healing and the teaching. Sat at His feet and lived in His presence. But, like all of …
