Dear Readers,
I’ll be back from my visit soon with my most precious, near 90 year old, mum. I am so grateful to have her in my life and extremely grateful to my brother for looking after her here in Oregon. Our 41st wedding anniversary is this Monday, the 20th. We couldn’t think of a better place to be, nor a better example to us of what grace, forgiveness and love is.
Hope you’re keeping well and enjoying the magic of spring,
love, deb ox
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 1-13
Poem: “Remember” by Joy Harjo
Music: “Horizon Variations” by composer Max Richter - from The Blue Notebook (15 Years)
Film and reading by me.
