Love Lessons

Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed
And worthy of acceptation.



Fire is bright,
Let temple burn, or flax;


an equal light
Leaps in the flame from cedar-plank or weed:

And love is fire. And when I say at need
I love thee . . . mark! . . . I love thee—in thy sight

I stand transfigured, glorified aright,
With conscience of the new rays that proceed
Out of my face toward thine.

There's nothing low
In love, when love the lowest: meanest creatures
Who love God, God accepts while loving so.

And what I feel,


across the inferior features
Of what I am,

doth flash itself, and show
How that great work of Love enhances Nature's.


Sonnet 10 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Beginning Again

Glorious day filled with love, beginnings and sweet endings. Learning to let go, play, and peacefully move forward...we homeschool.

I'm the student most days. I'm the one who needs to learn. I learn more than expected. More than math, reading, religion...I learn to see my child and hear her.

I stop and listen with her and scoop out of myself new visions and life waiting to unfold.

She moves at a pace I have forgotten. I dance with her as we march to Jesus Loves Me...and I remember to be a child at heart. We are thrown together on these days of school and it helps me to be there anew.

To love her anew and learn how to walk again. Thank you Jesus for teaching me today. Thank you Mary for holding my hands when I fear I cannot do this. I remembered today that although I'm never going to have it all perfect I know why I am here doing this schooling in this way. Dancing with my children and rejoicing in their victories.

Thank you that I am here to love them and celebrate each moment; however small to the world.

These are the moments. I am watching them enlarge, stretch and refresh my heart.