To My Future Love

My Love ... here's a poem which always makes me think of you.

"Love"

I love you,
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am
When I am with you.

I love you,
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me.

I love you
For the part of me
That you bring out;
I love you
For putting your hand
Into my heaped-up heart
And passing over
All the foolish, weak things
That you can't help
Dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out
Into the light
All the beautiful belongings
That no one else had looked
Quite far enough to find.

I love you because you
Are helping me to make
Of the lumber of my life
Not a tavern
But a temple;
Out of the works
Of my every day
Not a reproach
But a song.

I love you
Because you have done
More than any creed
Could have done
To make me good,
And more than any fate
To make me happy.

You have done it
Without a touch,
Without a word,
Without a sign.
You have done it
By being yourself.
Perhaps that is what
Being a friend means,
After all.

~ © Roy Croft (1907 - 1973)

Love Quote of the Day

The most important, most expanisive and far reaching love is self-love.

~ Journey

A Love to Aspire

This is an example of a love that is perpetually renewed and grows with each new day. I came across this on a defunct blog as I was trying to find a name for this site. And I thought to myself, I must hold onto this, for this is how I want to be loved, expansively and for all eternity. So I share this in that light, to affirm what I want to bring into my life.

Friday, November 30, 2001
I'm thinking about you, and I get to thinking: Beauty is God's delight in his creation; and nowhere does God take more delight, than in the beauty of a woman. With each passing year you grow ever more beautiful: sublimely, exquisitely beautiful. Your beauty is both immediately striking and unfathomable. It is always breathtaking. It cannot be greater: and then tomorrow it is.

~ posted by one who delights | 9:32 PM

Affirmation of the Day

God has given me abundant energy, vitality, well-being and self-love.

Life is an incredible blessing!

Love Quote of the Day

"To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."
- Sydney Smith

Love Quote of the Day"

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love Quote of the Day

"Your task is not to seek for love,
But merely to seek and find
All the barriers within yourself
That you have built against it."

~ Rumi

My Affirmations for Love

This month I am starting something new in my life - an experiment in "Love". A few years back I read a book about creating the environment you want to have in the present, so you're both living in what you want, while at the same time creating an environment to invite more of it to come into your life. Lets' face it, if you're a negative person, love, or anything else for that matter, will not come into your life easily or magnificently. Been there done that.

From years of seeking and working at having wonderful things come in my life I know there's a better way. I know because I've done it in the past with: money (I have my dream job & it pays well); major academic issues (they were quickly resolved to my satisfaction); debt (I finally settled a huge debt w/the IRS to my satisfaction); and issues with my ex (he's now willing to sign on the dotted line letting go of money demands).

Soooooo... I'm now ready to use the same tools and thinking to invite love into my life. I'm affirming and inviting all kinds of love; from self, familial and filial love, to strong, positive, and passionate love so my future love, will enter my life.

This post will stay at the top through the end of the year so I can visit easily to: read, visualize, pray and meditate over these affirmations so all kinds of great love will enter my life and stay. At the end of the year I will write about the journey and the love I experienced along the way. In the meantime, I share my affirmations for love with everyone so that you too can experience the joy of loving and being loved... so be it!

• I am a beautiful! I am a beautiful creation of God's love.


• Everyone gets to see the beauty I possess within, and see the beauty I display outside of me.


• I lovingly accept myself and my life.


• I bask in God's unconditional love.


• I am a radiating center of divine love.
• My family feels the divine love within me and relates to me from their same place.
• I am lovingly preparing myself for the wonderful man of my dreams and God's choosing.
• I attract good, caring, fun & spiritual people into my life.
• This is a magical loved-filled month for me.

Walking in Love

Love Originally uploaded by amoraleda

"How blessed I am that I can walk beside you, lean upon you, and live within the warmth of your love." ~ Roy Lessin

Loving Thoughts Are Everywhere

You Warm My Heart Originally uploaded by Hvnly

I came across this photo over at flickr, and it made me think how all I wanted to do all day was to take 15 or 20 min to sit in a cafe do my affirmations, visualizations and prayers. Unfortunately, I was too busy to do them until I got on the LIRR on my way to make a shiva call.

It's been very busy at work and in my life lately. On a gray, misty cold November day like today I would have loved nothing more that to just sit and slowly sip my cap at my favorite italian cafe, looking for inspiration for love in the booths around me. Instead I found the inspiration during my shiva call. If you stop long enough to look around you, you will see love everywhere.

Sealed with a Kiss

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves" ~ Victor Hugo

Congratulations Chris! May you have many years of bliss together!

First Kiss

“The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.”
~ Emil Ludwig

To My Future Beloved

I love you,

Not only for what you are,
But for what I am
When I am with you.

I love you,
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me.
I love you
For the part of me
That you bring out;
I love you
For putting your hand
Into my heaped-up heart
And passing over
All the foolish, weak things
That you can't help
Dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out
Into the light
All the beautiful belongings
That no one else had looked
Quite far enough to find.

I love you
Because you have done
More than any creed
Could have done
To make me good
And more than any fate
Could have done
To make me happy.
You have done it
Without a touch,
Without a word,
Without a sign.
You have done it
By being yourself.
Perhaps that is what
Being a friend means,
After all.

~ Roy Croft