The Patience To Love

At Last I See, Through The Eyes Of Time
And The Mirrors Of History,
It Is Love That Sets Us Free.

Love of Love, Love For Love.
Love of Patience, And The Patience To Love.

The Love To Be Warm, And The Warmth To Be Free.

The Forgiveness Of Love, The Grace Of Forgiveness.

The Freedom of Choice, And The Choice To Be Free.

Freedom From Pain,
Created By The Winds Of Change,
Blown By The Gusts Of Creation.

Loving To Relate, And Relating To Love.

Loving To See The Way We Seek
The Expression Of Creativity.

True Love Teaches The Temper Of Relations
And The Temperament Needed To Relate.

The Relationship Of Love
Is A Companionship Of Change.

It Is A Willingness of The Heart
To Allow A Person
To Grow, Change, And Mature
Towards The Fulfillment
of Their Greatest Potential And Dreams.

 It Is Understanding The Boundaries Of An Individual.
When To Be With Them, When To Give Them Space.

True Love
Is A Movement Of The Heart.

True Love Is Not Something
That We Fall Into,
But Is Something That We Are.

Love Is The Space
That Finds A Home Between Two People.

It Is The Spark
That Ignites A Smile,
And The Caring Shoulder Which Cradles
The Crying Heart.

Love Is What We Seek,
Because Love Is What We Are.

It Is That Magical Feeling...
That Space Between Two People
That Makes Them Feel At Peace And As One.

It Is The Feeling Which Knows,
That The Person You Are With
Accepts You For Who You Are,
And For The Dreams You Wish To Journey.

In One Way Or Another, We Are All In Love.

Yet True Lovers Are The Ones
Who Have Chosen To Take The Chance,
To Share Their Heart And Light
With Another,
And To Encourage And Support One-Another
In The Aspirations of Their Imagination.

In This Magical World There Are Many Lovers,
Yet It Is The Few Who Take The Chance To Enter
That Space Of Love
Between One Another
That Actually Experience
The Freedom,
Warmth And Beauty
of Being
With A Caring Heart

The Experience of TRUE-LOVE.

To Be Encouraged,
To Be Empowered,
To Feel Safe.

To Laugh And Cry,
Giggle And Dance.

To Share Secrets
Knowing They Will Never
Be Revealed.

To Miss Their Presence,

And Trust Their Touch.

To Share Their Heart, Mind, Body and Soul
As An Expression Of Their Mutual Love.

To Trust That
The Person You Are With
Is The Person of Your Dreams
Is A Very Difficult Challenge.

You Know You Are Right
When Nothing Can Interfere,
And Each Obstacle Brings You Closer
And More Dear;

When Each Memory
Makes You Feel More Special
And More Clear.

When You Look At Yourself
And Know You Have Learned and Grown
Because Your Lover
Cares Enough To Show You
What Needs To Be Shown.

 When A Friendship Grows
With Honesty, Openness, Humor And Tears,
The Space Between Them Opens With
Outstretched Arms,
And The Love That They Are
Becomes Joined As One.

They Offer Themselves To Each Other,
As A Gift Of Mutual Exchange,
And Become Lovers
of the Heart, Mind, Body And Soul.

David Lloyd Strauss
October 21, 1998