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Some times I feel I am out of practice
with love
For love is that way of engaging myself
with someone else - of allowing myself
to become deeply involved in the life
of another person.
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Only Jesus knows how much I need to love ...
and to be loved.
How much I need for someone to care for me
and let me care for them.
How much I need to crawl into a life and live there
and to let someone in behind my own mask
And walk around, looking at me as I really am.
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Love does that, you know. It has no secrets. It is truthful in relationships.
It desires to expose itself, and in the exposing it gives and gives
and never stops.
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I can speak only as a man, for I have known love only
from this perspective.
Thus whether it is a man for a woman
a daddy for his daughter (or his son),
a child for his aging parents,
a friend for a friend,
or the warm, gentle touch of the Father
for His wandering child.
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Love reaches out to give ... and to forgive.
Yes, always to forgive.
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Love, real love, needs no stimulation
No prodding.
It is always there in our waking moments
in our dreams.
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Absence makes it stronger
Time mellows it
Miles do not destroy it
Pain and suffering only give it a deeper understanding.
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Love sparkles in a touch,
finds a resting place in a smile
is matured in tears
and is satisfied in reckless giving ~
the kind where there is no thought
of receiving in return.
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It is sexless, raceless, ageless, timeless.
It is God in you and in me
reaching out to give.
ADT 01/07/87© ~ Jamie Buckingham ~
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