From the editor...
Love Matters
Have you ever wondered what life would be like without love?
I imagine you could still manage to get up each day and busy yourself with whatever it is that you do to pass the hours of the day. And then when the day is done, I am sure you could hoist yourself into bed and sleep off the stresses of the day and look forward to doing it all over again. Have you ever asked yourself why you do what you do 365 days a year, seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day? Is it merely to eek out a living or is it for a greater or higher purpose? What causes a human being to be driven to continue to struggle against all odds only to wind up in places, be they good or bad, that he or she, in a million years, never could have imagined? Could it be that our thirst for love and all that this emotion invokes is what fuels our desires and the passions that are present within each of us from the day we are born?
In spite of all we do to detach ourselves, when all is said and done, we are drawn like magnets to this human emotion that defines and powers life itself. Each individual has a desire for and needs to be loved. This need cannot be satisfied by money, big houses, cars, chocolates, diamonds, furs, or any of the many things that we give as outward expressions of love.
When things rust, wear out or are long forgotten like yesterday’s fads, it is the indelible remnants of this emotion that remains. It is the subtle, yet powerful nuances that are unspoken, but, like the rapturous cadence of drum beats, can be heard above all the insignificant noise that we create in order to drown out the quiet voice from within. And when we meet it in its purest form, this is what we are able to see.
“Love is patient. Love is kind. It is not envious. It is not boastful. It is not proud nor is it rude. It is not self-serving and is not easily angered. It does not remember your wrongs, it does not delight in evil but rather it rejoices in truth. It protects always, always trusts, it hopes and it never gives up. Love never fails!”
—1 Corinthians 13 of the Holy Bible
Deigratia,
Bonnie
