Love Comes to Those Who Love

November 18, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is love.

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A poem about love as the cause of love:

Love comes to those who love, who find their joy

In others' joy, their tears in others' tears.

Those in need receive the gifts that buoy

Them through the windswept yearnings of their years.

Weakness is a strength, and power none,

For none has power to compel affection.

Passion to the self-consumed may come,

But love looks for the grace of its reflection.

Love is like a tide that comes and goes,

And comes and goes according to the moon,

Giving and receiving as it flows

Between high headlands weathered and rough-hewn.

For love becomes itself the cause of love,

A double-knot not easy to remove.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

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11/14: Gifts Given Freely, Out of Joy and Love

11/15: In Love You Let the Heart Do All the Thinking

11/16: Jewels Are Cut from More than Precious Stone

11/17: Lest Your Love Lie Undisclosed

11/18: Love Comes to Those Who Love