Friday, October 28, 2005
Why do I love you? Selfishness Simply...???
Why do I love you? Is it for you or my own self? I think I love you not only for what you are but for also what I am when I am with you. I love you not for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me too. I love you for the part of me that you bring out of me. I love you for putting your hand into my heaped up heart and passing over all the foolish and frivolous and weak things that you can't help dimly seeing there and for drawing out into the light all the beautiful radiant belongings that on one else had looked quite enough to find. I love you for ignoring the possibilities of the fool and weakling in me, and for laying firm hold on the possibilities of the good in me. I love you for closing your ears to the discords in me and for adding to the music in me by worshipful listening. I love you because you are helping me to take of the timber of my life not a tavern, but a temple, and of the words of my every day not a reproach, but a song.
