Happy Valentine's Day

 Another February 14th rolls around, and I send you all my love and Valentine greetings.

This year finds me on a health kick: lots of walking and lots of vegetables.  And then, as if to encourage me, one day this happened:

Serendipity

All I did was trim the end of the root. The radish shared serendipitous love!  

This is as close to snow as we've had this winter, but no complaints. I like good walking weather.

This Valentine's Day I think I will finally succeed in memorizing a favorite love poem.  When was the last time you tried memorization?  Brains like a good challenge.

“The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever,
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle:—
Why not I with thine?

See! the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:—
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?”

― Percy Bysshe Shelley

We recently sang an anthem that has such wonderful words, I want to share them here:

Beloved, God's chosen,

put on as a garment

compassion, forgiveness

and goodness of heart.

Above all, before all,

let love be your raiment

that binds into one

every dissonant part.

I love the image of binding into one all our dissonant parts. May it be so. 

Again, "Happy Valentine's Day!"  Be well, be happy, and shine your light!