The Been Briefing

a few poems for love.... ^^

Emily Dickinson
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HEART, we will forget him!
You and I, to-night!
You may forget the warmth he gave,
I will forget the light.

When you have done, pray tell me,
5 That I my thoughts may dim;
Haste! lest while you’re lagging,
I may remember him!

Shakespeare's SONNET 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

an excerpt from a letter by amy carmichael to the dohnavur fellowship about love:

I cannot rest because of the distress that comes to me as I think of a misunderstanding that need never have been between two of you who love the Lord Jesus and are wholly given to His service.
And this kind of distress comes too often. It is a heavy burden to me. It is costing your [helpers] far too much time and strength, time and strength that they should be free to give to younger ones.
Often these misunderstandings are about the merest trifles. You let them grow and grow till your whole day is shadowed. This delights the devil, but it terribly injures your own soul, and it sorely grieves the Spirit of Love. Also, and this is serious, while you are yielding to such feelings you are unconsciously sowing seeds of unlove and distrust in other hearts - in the children's hearts. These seeds will spring to life and grow up to your sorrow one day.
Why don't you keep the Law of the Family and go straight to the one who has (you think) done something wrong?
You can't, do you say? You can. Love will find a way. ...
O my children, if only you would make up your minds never to doubt the love of another sister or brother in Christ, but always to think the best, to take the best for granted, and never admit an unkind thought in your heart, how happy, how heavenly life would be....
But with Thee is forgiveness, that Thou mayest be feared. Remember those last words. They are too often forgotten. Fear to sin against love. Fear to dishonor your Lord. Fear with a holy fear the least small beginning of this hellish sin. Beloved, let us love. We perish if we do not love. Let us love.


"How deep the Father's love for us, that we should be called the children of God."
- 1 john 3,1