Things I'll Never Say

If I could say what I want to say,

I'd say, "I wanna blow you away,

Be with you every night,

Am I squeezing you too tight?"

If I could say what I wanna see,

I want to see you go down

On one knee, "Marry me today."

Yes, I'm wishing my life away.

With these things I"ll never say

- Avril Lavigne

Promises

God didn't promise days without pain,

laughter without sorrow,

or sun without rain...

...but He did promise STRENGTH for the day,

COMFORT for the tears,

and LIGHT for the way!

Worth Fighting For

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive?

Love is everything it's cracked up to be...

That's why people are so cynical about it.

It really is worth FIGHTING for,

BEING BRAVE for,

RISKING EVERYTHING for...

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything,

you risk even more."

~ Erica Jong

Real, Unconditional Love

"I have never met a person whose greatest need

was anything other than

REAL, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

You can find it in a simple act of kindness

toward someone who needs help...

...There is no mistaking LOVE.

You FEEL it in your HEART.

It is the common fiber of LIFE,

the FLAME that heats our SOUL,

ENERGIZES our SPIRIT &

supplies PASSION to our LIVES.

It is our connection to GOD and to EACH OTHER."

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Just Give

"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally,

without expecting anything in return. To just give...

That takes courage,

because we don't want to fall on our faces

or leave ourselves open to hurt."

~ Madonna

Perfect love is rare indeed -

...for to be a lover will require that you continually have

the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child,

the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the foritude of the certain.

- Leo Buscaglia

"what does not kill me makes me stronger"

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow;

We must fail in order to know;

Sometimes our vision clears only after our eyes are

Washed away with tears."

Light In My Heart

"I have come as a Light to shine in this dark world, that all who put their trust in me will no longer wander in the darkness." John 12.46

"I am the Light of the world. So if you follow me, you won't be stumbling through the darkness, for living light will flood your path." John 8.12