Song of Solomon 8:6-7

King James Version (KJV)

⁶ Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
⁷ Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

The Message (MSG)
Hang my locket around your neck,
    wear my ring on your finger.
Love is invincible facing danger and death.
    Passion laughs at the terrors of hell.
The fire of love stops at nothing—
    it sweeps everything before it.
Flood waters can’t drown love,
    torrents of rain can’t put it out.
Love can’t be bought, love can’t be sold—
    it’s not to be found in the marketplace.

The heart is the seat of emotion (life flows from our heartbeat)
The arm is the seat of our strength/power.
Love outlast anything and is even stronger than death and the grave, even I Corinthians 13 says the greatest is love. The seal like a piece of jewelry which one wears close to their heart, with love and faithfulness being the desire.   

You have held me in limbo for these two plus years now and I have let you,

Call it infatuation, call it imagination, call it obsession, and call it whatever,

My every thought waking or sleeping has circled around you in some form or fashion,

I have been reeling from it to the point of exhaustion; I’ve lost weight, lost sleep,

And at times thought I would lose my mind, but I’m still here, and sadly you are not,

I have prayed and cried, and pleaded, decreed, declared, released, prayed, God’s will be done,

So at this point since I know He loves us both, I have to believe that this is the best thing.

Love and commitment at least in my view requires more,

It isn’t necessarily 24/7 attention, but sometimes it is,

It isn’t 24/7 patience, but sometimes it is,

It isn’t 24/7 forgiveness, but sometimes it is.

Everyone’s path is different, and we must each walk our own at our own pace

If by grace we are blessed to walk alongside someone wonderful for a while

It is definitely worth enduring their humanity

To touch that spark of divinity inside that makes them truly unique, and of purpose in this world.

Some of us stumble getting to our purpose; some of us falter, fall or fail,

But if we are trying at all to please God and serve our fellow human beings

Some of that should be expected; after all we are flesh and blood.

I hope someday I get a chance to walk beside you once again, you are wonderful,

And I will miss the daily opportunity to talk and listen, and learn with you and from you,

Even the hard things taught me to appreciate and be thankful for every gift God gives,

If they are brief they are more precious, and sometimes once you see it they are gone.

I pray to fulfill my 120, and hope that somewhere on this journey,

There will be another chapter titled, “You and I”.

This one seemed too short, and the love it seemed too strong, so perhaps there is another to be written Love can only hope and dream.

Take Care, my beauty, take care.

Dreams, purpose, passion, creativity take time and sometimes their messy, sometimes noisy even while the pruning, the molting, the grinding, the polishing and the refining of something so beautiful is in process. Maybe that the thing we don't see, we are still in process, I know we are not done; never believed for a moment we were done. God has told me many things, "Be patient, be a friend, love unconditionally, hang in there", but NEVER, " Give it up, walk away or get over it!" Funny about that I usually hear pretty clear. Don't think I'm wrong, my love is too strong, always has been. Crazy that people are afraid of what they don't understand, can't control, or that seems like work. I choose not to take the easy route, to settle or compromise. LOVE bears ALL things, believes ALL things, endures ALL things, hopes ALL things, and LOVE NEVER FAILS!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I am so jazzed about 2013! It is a fresh start, but more than that 13 is the Biblical number of Atonement. Wow! Jesus said, "It Is Finished!" When Atonement was made, the slate was wiped clean, whatever account had to be satisfied was, because He paid it ALL! We can enter in like innocent children, with eyes full of wonder for what God will do. I chose the picture at top because it reminds me of one scene from the great movies series, "The Matrix", so create your own reality!!!

I have a sign posted on my computer screen, so it's the first thing I see every morning and the last I see at night, it simply says: "God Amaze Me". I have opened the door for God to make my wildest dreams come true this year, and to use me in some incredible ways to use my gifts and talents to help, teach, minister, and  just basically to bless and speak into peoples' lives and make a difference.

I like the verse in Malachi 3:10, we tend to look at it regarding giving back to the church and ministry or something that has blessed us during the year. If we look at it as us being opened up as a window of blessing, that is even more exciting. Its great to receive, but even cooler to see ways to be a help to others and see what God does to bless you back for giving first. He always does it better than what I hope or possibly dream. Go on God, AMAZE ME! Use me, I open my life as a window for you to pour a blessing through all of 2013.