Many years ago, I had more creative juices flowing than the River Nile (mainly because the Nile has water flowing). We had four young children, I was chair of one society, scretary of another, on the school governing body, and I was working full time.
During that "relaxed" time I designed a beautiful cross stitch for a colleague who was leaving. A few years before, their farm had gone down the river - literally washed away by a flood - and she and her husband had to find jobs. I searched the Scriptures for a verse to embroider on the gift, and found something that has since brought me comfort in many circumstances: "many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away" .
Tomorrow i shall be a witness of the union between two youngsters who both lost a leg in a horrific accident: hers was auto-amputated above knee, and his mid-tibial amputation was a year later. She got her prosthesis right away, he got his two days ago - just in time to walk his bride down the isle.
Tomorrow we will be reminded - as many times before - that many waters indeed cannot quench love. If anything, it will make the bond stronger.
And - elevated far above mortal love - there is the love of an Immortal One, who loves us with an everlasting love, and Whose love for us will never be quenched.
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