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Love & Dust

Love is the lamp that lights the universe: without that light . . . the earth is a barren promontory and man the quintessence of dust.
--Mary Elizabeth Braddon

All of us are lighted by love. Childcare, car repair, concluding a report - are easier tasks when we know we're loved. We don't feel quite as alone and conspicuous in a crowd of strangers when we recall that someone special loves us. No new adventure, first plane trip, or first day of a class or new job feels quite as threatening when we've got the company of a loved one in our hearts and minds.

You might be thinking, "But I don't have a special loved one now." How narrowly we define being loved. We have friends who love us, who think of us even when we're not present - just as we think of them. And no one of us is ever away from the protective realm of a Higher Power who loves us always and everywhere we go.

Wherever we look there is someone who, like us, will find the day easier if he remembers he's loved.

You are reading from the book:

Worthy of Love by Karen Casey

My gawd!  This is the most impactful quote I've ever seen about LOVE.  All kinds of love fit this mold.  The absence of love in my life was like living DUST.  I am grateful to my wonderful friends and family who helped keep the candle flickering until love returned in my life.  On this beautiful Friday morning, I am grateful to DUST for helping me better appreciate LOVE.  All kinds of love.  And most of all, my Love and all of you whom I love and who love me.   God doesn't have an email address or I would copy HIM here.  However, the very nature of these signals that beam our thoughts across the Universe tells me that somehow, HE will get this message. 

 

 xox, Sharon

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I like the poetry and metaphor of dry, dust, bones, “death”, and breath (and love) and “life” (vs just being alive).


Love is the lamp that lights the universe: without that light . . . the earth is a barren promontory and man the quintessence of dust.


Bill

 

From: Wolters, William D. (NE)
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:47 AM
To: 'sballer@lobatek.com'
Subject: RE: Love is the lamp that lights the universe: without that light . . . the earth is a barren promontory and man the quintessence of dust.

 

1The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which [was] full of bones,

2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, [there were] very many in the open valley; and, lo, [they were] very dry.

3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.

4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.