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Reluctance
Out through the fields and the woods
And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world, and descended;
I have come by the highway home,
And lo, it is ended.
The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel them one by one
And let them go scraping and creeping
Out over the crusted snow,
When others are sleeping.
And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,
No longer blown hither and thither;
The last lone aster is gone;
The flowers of the witch hazel wither;
The heart is still aching to seek,
But the feet question "Whither?"
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season? |
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| Name: Monica | 2012-07-18 |
| The love between a pnraet (mom) and child is not symmetrical as would be, say, the love between a husband and wife. The mode in which a pnraet gives love to a child is, therefore, much different than the mode in which the child reciprocates love back to the pnraet. The pnraet expresses love through unending sacrifice and devotion to the child's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well being. This love is not contingent in any way on the child earning it. The pnraet-to-child love is part of the genetic and spiritual code of normal human existence.The child, on the other hand, shows love back to the pnraet in keeping the family code, honoring the pnraet's value system, etc. In short, the child shows love back to the pnraet by striving to live up to the pnraet's expectations of them. In my view, a pnraet must give the child clear expectations so that the child will then have a vehicle by which to express their love back to the pnraet. If expectations aren't there, the child is powerless to express love back to their pnraet.I'm saying all this assuming normal pnraet/child relationships. Things go off track when the child has no expectations on which to hang their love, or if the pnraet expects the child to mirror their love in the form of devotion. This is also how I see God's love modeled for his children. His love is unconditional and comes to us first. Our love is secondarily back to Him, and is demonstrated by how we keep His commandments (John 14:15) and strive to live up His expectations. In my view, a sin is missing the mark on what God expects of his kids. |
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| Name: Lundy | 2014-05-23 |
| My anniversary is in two weeks and we will have been mrraied for 23 years! I also love my husband more now than I did back then Happy Anniversary Katrina and cheers to the many many wonderful years ahead. xxSomething Gorgeous recently posted..[] Reply:March 4th, 2012 at 2:22 pmThat's lovely! Thanks so much.[] |
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