Lift your hips for me love.

The other day I woke up to find my girlfriend already gone from the house and a sticky note on the fridge that said I love you. Oh my God I thought. Somebodys obsessed with me and they kidnapped my girlfriend just to get closer to me.

Beloved let us love one another because love is from God everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God for God is love.

If you follow the will of God you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love so that even when no human being can or will help you you may go on trusting in the One that loves you.

God is love she said. And he respects love whether its between a parents and child a man and woman or friends. I dont think he cares about religion one little bit. Live your life right. Love with all your heart. Dont hurt others and help those in need. That is all you need to know. And dont worry about heaven. If it exists youll be welcome.

Let me tell you about love that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to do with how your body responds to another body like robins or bison or maybe you believe love is how forces or nature or luck is benign to you in particular not maiming or killing you but if so doing it for your own good. Love is none of that. There is nothing in nature like it. Not in robins or bison or in the banging tails of your hunting dogs and not in blossoms or suckling foal. Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God. You do not deserve love regardless of the suffering you have endured. You do not deserve love because somebody did you wrong. You do not deserve love just because you want it. You can only earn - by practice and careful contemplations - the right to express it and you have to learn how to accept it. Which is to say you have to earn God. You have to practice God. You have to think God-carefully. And if you are a good and diligent student you may secure the right to show love. Love is not a gift. It is a diploma. A diploma conferring certain privileges the privilege of expressing love and the privilege of receiving it. How do you know you have graduated You dont. What you do know is that you are human and therefore educable and therefore capable of learning how to learn and therefore interesting to God who is interested only in Himself which is to say He is interested only in love. Do you understand me God is not interested in you. He is interested in love and the bliss it brings to those who understand and share the interest. Couples that enter the sacrament of marriage and are not prepared to go the distance or are not willing to get right with the real love of God cannot thrive. They may cleave together like robins or gulls or anything else that mates for life. But if they eschew this mighty course at the moment when all are judged for the disposition of their eternal lives their cleaving wont mean a thing. God bless the pure and holy. Amen.

Give me the Love that leads the wayThe Faith that nothing can dismayThe Hope no disappointments tireThe Passion thatll burn like fireLet me not sink to be a clodMake me Thy fuel Flame of God

I love the Lord for he heard my voice he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me I will call on him as long as I live. Psalms 1161-2 NIV

His hands are holding my cheeks and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says I think he says my heart is going to explode and I wish more than ever that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. Because this.This is everything.

Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.