Beating…one beat, two beats, three beats…what keeps a heart beating? Strength? Truth? Beauty? Or is it love? Emotions, roiling under the surface, spiking, then falling, rising to a crescendo again…
Time…..space……distance……can anything separate a heart from the magnet that attracts it? Across the universe a signal goes out among the stars and heavenly bodies searching for the completeness it lacks. Titanic forces within, and without, pulling, pushing, tearing and healing…
The heart……the ultimate force of reality, a furnace of heat, passion and creativity. A jewel given to a beloved, ruby red and shining, as strong as tempered steel, and as fragile as glass. Is there a greater treasure that one can give? When one gives this, one gives their very life essence.
In the heart are the forges of love. In these forges love is often shaped with hammering blows. It is refined and worked with the tools of spirit and soul. It is purified in the fire of passion…and tempered with the mind.
Time… distills the heart and the love that is created there. Time and aging of that love deepens it, and gives it body and fullness, and a groundedness that only comes by trial and pain.
Love, when planted in another’s heart can be likend to a seed. If that seed is accepted and nurtured a tree of love will grow and the fruit of it will be shared by both…
Beating….one beat, two beats, three beats…what keeps a heart beating?…Love does…
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