WARM MEMORIES AND FAMILY LOVE CARRY US THROUGH LIFE'S HARSHEST STORMS

  Photo submitted by Kaye Rowe

The winter months bring many times of discomfort to our heart and our bodies. Many of us wait anxiously for the first sign of spring.  As we age, our bodies scream with pain as the coldness settles itself upon the face of the earth.  

Although winter is dark and harsh, it can also be a time to reflect and remember special moments with our families, the moments that warm our soul.  This warmth fills our soul and gives us strength to move forward and carry on, no matter the temperature outside. 

This is a great time to reflect upon, a time to start building memories for the future. This is something we are never too old to do!  

Are we leaving warm "love trenches" in the lives of our children and loved ones, that will be a place they can go on those wintery harsh nights and find warmth? Are we leaving a memory they can go to and find strength to carry on, or are we leaving memories of cold, icy storms, a place when visited, they shutter and run from, due to the bitter coldness of the memory. 

What are you doing with the word God placed in your hands, "love"?  

L  O  V  E 

Consist of four letters in the alphabet!

Four letters full of energy and power!

Four letters harnessing the lives of the future!

You hold in your hands the letters that can make someone great and famous, kind and compassionate, joyous and full of hope for the future.  The letters that if used incorrectly can break down, destroy and leave someone without hope to carry on.  

Love Trenches 

Lay them prayerfully and carefully 

for all those visiting in the future! 

I Corinthians 13 4:13

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; 

charity envieth not; 

charity vaunteth not itself, 

is not puffed up,

Doth not behave itself unseemly, 

seeketh not her own, 

is not easily provoked, 

thinketh no evil;

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, 

but rejoiceth in the truth;

Beareth all things, 

believeth all things, 

hopeth all things, 

endureth all things.

Charity never faileth: 

but whether there be prophecies, 

they shall fail; 

whether there be tongues, 

they shall cease; 

whether there be knowledge, 

it shall vanish away.

For we know in part, 

and we prophesy in part.

But when that which is perfect is come, 

then that which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, 

I spake as a child, 

I understood as a child, 

I thought as a child: 

but when I became a man, 

I put away childish things.

For now we see through a glass, 

darkly; but then face to face: 

now I know in part; 

but then shall I know 

even as also I am known.

And now abideth faith,

 hope, charity, these three; 

but the greatest of these is charity.