Saturday Meditations - love is romantic . . . love is giving . . . love is making an effort . ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxDuckV7IAY&feature=email

Keith Urban's Raining on Sunday (couldn't put it on Sunday because it's Easter. Now this is what I call romantic love and I am a romantic - at least in my own mind! (teehee).

Of course then there is the Love for yourself . . . don't forget. You are to love others as you love yourself.



"She dreamed that she was commanded to descend into a pit filled with hot stuff and immerse herself in it. This she did, till only one shoulder was sticking out of the pit. Then Jung came along, pushed her right down into the hot stuff, exclaiming. "Not out but through."
-Aniela Jaffe

Love is loving yourself too,
Chatty

Love is taking a walk . . . love some times is silent . . . love is some times is talking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajy0w1XPJk8

Snow Patrol

Well, to tell you the truth - I'm not a person that has to be in love - yet I am a person who is very much in love and very much in love with the idea of love, but maybe not in the traditional way - as I'm kind of an irregular person (or weird).

I think 'love' is highly over rated. Way too much pressure. That 'having to love' changes things.

Maybe I put too many high expectations for love and no one can meet the requirements - I'll admit it.

My friend Lynne told me her view of love which is, "I've been reading Max Lucado's book "3:16 The Numbers of Hope", a really neat book and there are a couple of lines that speak to what we were sharing earlier today, page 141-142 talks about how God did what he did and became human knowing the suffering he would endure, but chose 'us' any way, "He humbled himself. He went from commanding angels to sleeping in the straw. The pal that held the universe took the nail of a soldier. Why? Because that 's what love does. It puts the beloved before itself"! " Love goes the distance....."

I do believe that at times love does put the beloved before themselves - I have for sure many times (denying self) - my problem is does every one understand that concept? Is that a woman concept only? Are people selfish who don't (they take, but they don't give)? Or do they just not get it (are they innocent)? And what happens to a marriage where one person is always putting others first and not getting anything in return? Is that okay? Or is it not okay? When do you take a stand for yourself? And what kind of stand do you take?

I love lots of 'things' and lots of 'people'. I love my girlfriends as much as any man. I love my family. I love music. I love feeling. I love talking. Learning. Living, Breathing . . . . I love 'living out loud'.

Now the answer for me, and would love to know what y'all think, I think love to be love has to go both ways - it must be a two way street. Talking, asking questions, romancing. If one person loves and does these things and the other one doesn't - is that love? And if it is not love, what is it?

Lovingly and questioningly,

Weird Chatty :)

Let's talk about the word love this week . . .love is celebrations

So what the heck is love anyway?

Love is Celebrations . . .

This is from leialoha@dailycelebrations.com

"One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love." ~ Leo Buscaglia

A passionate man who celebrated the positive power of love, writer Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998) was born Leonardo Felice Buscaglia on this day in Los Angeles, California.

Buscaglia spent the first six years of his life in his family's hometown of Aosta, a village near the Italian Alps. He returned to L.A. and decided to become a teacher.

He once said: "Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can one be nurtured by genuineness."

The restless educator spent years seeking life's truths, traveling to Asia where he discovered that all religions "agree on the same principles for humanity...There is no religion that disagrees on the basic tenet being love."

"You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you."

Called "Dr Love" and the "hug therapist," Buscaglia spread his message of love and positive personal growth to American classrooms, in books, on television, and as an international lecturer.
"Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means," he said.

~~Grow...Expand...Love!

Again this was taken from leialoha@dailycelebrations.com - check them out.

I thought this would be a good way to start taking about the word love. I remember watching him on Public Broadcasting. He seemed to me to be a sweetie. Personally I have trouble with the word love. I know the opposite of love to me is not hate, it is INDIFFERENCE!

Well, it's spring break week here with everyone "I love' home so I thought I's share some songs and pictures this week about my views of love. The wedding is in 7 weeks so love is upmost on my mind. Ahhhhhhhhh youth . . .

LOVE,
Chatty