On a Covenant Marriage

 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 

(1 Corinthians 13:4-7, NIV)

"Like We Never Had A Broken Heart"

Don't be afraid to hold me tight

You know I won't brake in two

What we're doing here tonight

Sure beats what we're going through

We both loved and lost before

You know the sadness it can bring

Tonight let's close the door

And hold onto the nearest thing

Let's keep hangin' on

So we won't fall apart

Let's make love tonight

Like we never had a broken heart

Writer: Patrick Alger

Copyright: Polygram Int. Publishing Inc., Universal Music Corp.

On making love with a broken heart....

"Like We Never Had A Broken Heart"

Don't be afraid to hold me tight
You know I won't brake in two
What we're doing here tonight
Sure beats what we're going through

We both loved and lost before
You know the sadness it can bring
Tonight let's close the door
And hold onto the nearest thing

Let's keep hangin' on
So we won't fall apart
Let's make love tonight
Like we never had a broken heart

Don't be afraid to close your eyes
Pretend I'm someone that you love
And I won't have to tell you lies
'Cause it's not you I'm thinkin' of

Let's keep hangin' on
So we won't fall apart
Let's make love tonight
Like we never had a broken heart

Tonight we'll just pretend
We've been in love right from the start
Let's make love again
Like we never had a broken heart
Let's make love again
Like we never had a broken heart

Don't be afraid to close your eyes



Writer: Patrick Alger
Copyright: Polygram Int. Publishing Inc., Universal Music Corp.

On Seeds Scattered in Rocky Soil

 

There is a great difference between a mystery of God

 that no man understands,

 and a mystery of God laid hold of,

 let it be but by one single man. 

The latter is already a revelation; and,

 passing through that man's mind,

 will be so presented,

 it may be so _feebly_ presented,

 that it will not hurt his fellows.

 Let God conceal as he will:

 (although I believe he is ever destroying concealment,

 ever giving all that he can,

 all that men can receive at his hands,

 that he does not want to conceal anything,

 but to reveal everything,)

the light which any man has received 

is not to be put under a bushel;

it is for him and his fellows.

 In sowing the seed he will not withhold his hand

 because there are thorns and stony places and waysides.

 He will think that in some cases

 even a bird of the air may carry the matter,

 that the good seed may be too much for the thorns,

 that that which withers away upon the stony place

 may yet leave there,

 by its own decay,

 a deeper soil for the next seed to root itself in.

 Besides,

 they only can receive the doctrine who have ears to hear.

 If the selfish man could believe it,

 he would misinterpret it;

 but he cannot believe it.

 It is not possible that he should

. But the loving soul,

 oppressed by wrong teaching,

 or partial truth claiming to be the whole,

 will hear,

 understand, rejoice.

 (George Macdonald, Unspoken Sermons)