Love Letter No 83 - Mystery Love

Dear ____,
The places we go, what we do and share,
all the activity sweetens love with
outward signs. Inside the deep
mystery of life and love sits
on the throne of my heart.
There within the mystery love
reigns supreme. Mystery love
motivates, compels, ennobles
my life that I live for you.
Within the soul is a song that
is sung for the soul's mate.
And the voice of mystery love is this
deep calling to the deep within you.
No, I can't see the wind,
I can't see the hand of God, and
I can't see love shared.
But my life has become the
sum total of mystery love.
In life I see mystery love everywhere.

With deep and tender affection,
LarryG

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to bless garden

The garden offers grace and blessing along
the trek from fallow to fruitfulness.

May garden bless the bodies that want labor.
The digging, spading, cultivating, planting, watering,
all the tasks that give exercise to body and
raise the spirit within.

May the observation of first shoots turn
inspire hopes of new life.

May new bud offer expectancy giving
emerging dreams nature's example.

May the blossom foretell the colorful
journey efforts have provided.

And as frost arrives with it's cool breath, may the
pleasure of garden's harvest be stored in the
belonging of memory to warm the days
of winter's rest till nature's call
echoes the song of the prophet,

"See! The winter is past; the rains
are over and gone. Flowers appear on
the earth; the season of singing
has come, the cooing of doves is heard in
our land."

~o'hOgain

(quotation reference is Songs 2:11,12)
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as perfectly as possible

"when a lot of things start going wrong all at once,
it is to protect something big and lovely
that is trying to get itself born - and that this
something needs for you to be distracted
so that it can be born
as perfectly as possible."
- referenced by Lamott
in her book Traveling Mercies

Love Letter No 82 - Linger Love

Dear T,
The smile of your presence
lingers within me,
warming the place we share.
To be together, to
linger over a drink warm or cold.
An embrace to pause, the moment when
linger becomes eye contact,
even though it is cold
there in the parking lot,
we both have places to go,
we continue to
linger. We
linger in conversation until
tension releases us at last with
a kiss that will
linger.

With deep and tender affection,
LarryG

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to bless witness

Have you heard "it is more blessed
to give than to receive" ?
This blessing is multiplied
when witness is the "to give".

May sharing from the heart emphasize
valuable experience, no person can take
another's experience from them,
witness endures within.

May recognition of personal connection
in life's story be relished.

Possibility expands as witness becomes focal;
telling the story is the gift that matters.

Reap happiness in abundance, make statements
of what you have done, experienced,
felt, become, given, received.

Even "to receive" is blessed when
it becomes the theme of witness giving.
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Yesterday gazing out the door, and desiring a jog, I knew it was cold out.
But I looked out to see snowflakes falling.
"What an opportunity. I will be able to share about a jog in falling snow."

So I put on shoes and layers, then jogged away.

The flakes seemed to be falling on the breath of angels,
each crytalline feather bearing the creator's signature.
Awestruck as I jogged slowly along the street,
"I have no interest in bearing witness
to the idea of jogging in the snow. It is the experience of jogging
in the snow that is amazing."

It was good for the soul to be out
in the snow fall yesterday, conspiring
with nature. And now witnessing to the experience
renews the blessing the event brought.
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May the witness to personal experience be doubly blessed today.

~o'hOgain

Love Letter No 81 - Scooby Doo Love

Dear M,
Scooby says it all for me,
"It's no mystery, You are a Great Friend"
"Valentine, You're my Best Friend!"
"You are Sweet, Valentine."
"Relp! It's Valentine's Day!"
"Ruh Roh! It's Valentine's Day!"
"You are a Great Pal"
"Be mine?"
"You're Groovy, Valentine!"

"Happy Valentine's Day!"

With deep and tender affection,
LarryG

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to bless ease

How happy to find ease.
Simplicity brings ease.
Laughter brings ease.
Honesty brings ease.
Fun brings ease.
Meditation brings ease.
May ease rush in and fill
the space release offers.

Pause ... Reflect
how does ease bless you?
Go for it!

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Love Letter No 80 - Plain Love

Dear E,
It's what I want to be clear about,
A very basic point you'll get,
Should be obvious to any observer,
Two words sum it up:
Plain Love

And nothing could ever
be more complicated!

With deep and tender affection,
LarryG

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Happy, Happy, Happy

You, my friend, have
made me happy happy happy!
How, you ask?
I got happy when
I found out what you do
making other people happy
:)

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of happiness goes up.
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