My Beloved, You Teach Me What Love Is

The Promise by Robert Sexton

This week's

Five Minute Friday 

Prompt 

is 

Beloved.  

You are my beloved because you have my heart.  You have helped me be more than I would have been alone.  You are willing to put up with me in my worst.

I read at “Heart Choices” a beautiful thought.  To paraphrase:  You are my beloved because sometimes I feel so in love with you, and when I don’t feel quite so in love, I choose to love you because that is love.  It wraps up emotion with action and commitment.  It goes beyond what I feel, but is what I feel as well.  I choose to love you, my beloved, and with every step of that choice, the love grows and you are more my beloved each day.

For Now and Ever by Robert Sexton

I love you because He first loved me.  The precious love of my Jesus makes me more able to conquer my selfishness and appreciate just how beautiful you are.  You are the blessed, beloved partner given by God, and I rejoice that I have you, my beloved.

Stop.  

Five minutes are up, 

but I have more to say to my beloved.

My beloved, how blessed I really am to have you:

To care for me when I am unable to do for myself.  

To be an example of love and selflessness not only to me but to our children and others whose lives you touch. 

To listen to me whine and not pass judgment and then lift me up so I whine that much less.

To laugh with and to make me laugh.

To be part of my cheerleading squad and to cheer you on as well.

To be a co-laborer for Christ with me.

To share the journey of life until we are those two waddling older folks walking the lane together. 

The Vow by Robert Sexton

Through you and with you, I am learning what love is, my beloved.

In Our Time by Robert Sexton

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