to love and be loved

I love to read.

I love to read about history.

I particularly love to read about World War II.

Not the battles to be sure,

but the people, the era, the struggles to survive

in one of the darkest portions of the past.

Today is a complete day of rest.

Church and then home...

to the bed...

under a lightweight blanket

to finish the book that you see pictured above.

Set in Paris, France, & Budapest, Hungry,

this story kept me mesmerized,

at times horrified,

but mostly enchanted..... 

reading about people 

who at all odds

 survive a war that millions of others did not.

Love...

I know this about love.

When there is love between two people,

it cannot be put out.

No one or anything can destroy it.

If the physical heart survives and lives,

so will the two hearts that love each other.

Love cannot be extinguished.

Time, distance, nor tragedy can put it out.

Love will see you through and bring you out on the other side.

To love and be loved

 is the most amazing blessing in the world.