Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.

Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.

Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me where He speaks without mercy and compassion. You visit not the sick and the imprisoned; nor do you feed the hungry or give refuge to the stranger or comfort to the mourner.

Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.