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Love Changes Everything….

I went to The Pops tonight and came home singing this song….

I love the lyrics and the depth of truth that resonates within it.

I have a few favorite lines…

Love,
Love changes everything:
How you live and

How you die

Having worked for Hospice, I find this line to be so true. It is my prayer for everyone, that we may be loved well in our living and in our dying….

And the other favorite part, which I find so true is:

Love,
Love changes everything:
Pain is deeper
Than before.

It feels odd to me that the more I love the more I feel pain.  I spent a lot of years dead to my heart. I was proud of that fact that I felt very little. My heart was awakened by beautiful people who loved me well. When my heart work up, I felt love and I felt pain and I began to realize the truth of the words in this beautiful song. I am thankful for love that awakened me to pain and never ever let me be the same!

Love,
Love changes everything:
Hands and faces,
Earth and sky,
Love,
Love changes everything:
How you live and
How you die

Love
Can make the summer fly,
Or a night
Seem like a lifetime.

Yes, Love,
Love changes everything:
Now I tremble
At your name.
Nothing in the
World will ever
Be the same.

Love,
Love changes everything:
Days are longer,
Words mean more.
Love,
Love changes everything:
Pain is deeper
Than before.

Love
Will turn your world around,
And that world
Will last for ever.

Yes, Love,
Love changes everything,
Brings you glory,
Brings you shame.
Nothing in the
World will ever
Be the same.

Off
Into the world we go,
Planning futures,
Shaping years.
Love,
Bursts in, and suddenly
All our wisdom
Disappears.

Love
Makes fools of everyone:
All the rules
We make are broken.

Yes, Love,
Love changes everyone.
Live or perish
In its flame.
Love will never,
Never let you
Be the same.

And in my office, on our wall, I have the quote: Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world. Samahria Lyte Kaufman

Somehow it all really seems to go together!

Go and love boldly!

Home again

I am back at my computer in my home and amazed at all one day can hold. Hard to imagine in a week’s time, my life is changed, my heart is fuller and I have experienced China in so many wonderful ways. I managed to stay awake until 7 pm and then slept deeply for 15+ hours. Experiencing life fully is tiring and benefiting from deep sleep is a true gift. I face today with a deep appreciation for tap water, scent free plumbing and pedestrian right away. I am marveling at language, deep connection and love!

On the plane I tried to sleep and yet kept hearing the voices of my Chinese friends. I was listening for what I was hearing and whose voice was I listening to. There was not clarity in my sleep. I hold the memory in that dream close to my heart. The distance begins as we all return to our day-to-day routines and yet, I carry a piece of each woman with me. I have heard their stories and I have embraced their pain. Together we shared the ache of unmet longings and yet realized even in the ache there is hope.

We shared much during the week and experienced that when we speak of our shame, we often feel exposed and even naked as did Adam and Eve. God reached out to Adam and Eve in their shame and clothed them. This is a teaching lesson for each of us to cover one another in our shame, not with leaves but with kind words full of truth and grace. It is evil that wants us to believe the lies of our heart and minds that we are unworthy or unloveable. It is in God’s love that he offers us truth.

We shared truth with one another this past week. Truth of our stories which invited us to sorrow and to recognize that in sorrow we open our hearts to joy and hope again. As we parted ways, we wrote words of truth and grace on a hand-held mirror. A mirror which each woman takes home and can choose to look at their beauty through the words of truth and grace offered by friends who have been with them in their struggles and know often some of their deepest shame. The moments are sweet and life giving…the hope this brings is deep….the invitation to be loved by God whose love is unconditional and eternal is life changing!

I have much to share and likely a number of blogs will unfold in the coming days. I missed writing and a steady internet connection will allow me to share some of my many thoughts upon returning home…

May you find friends who speak life-giving hopeful words of truth to you today!