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  1. Rita Sowinski
    RL
    5 days ago

    Who’s enduring Love do I carry with me?

    My Lord, Jesus.

    His Love for me and all the world, it is with me.
    My life is to carry that love, co creation is sharing love in my way of being and doing. In my living, His love is my life source of Hope.

  2. sparrow51014
    sparrow
    5 days ago

    Whose enduring love do I carry with me?

    I don’t know if I carry anyone’s undying love with me . . .
    I carry love within me for other people,
    but I have no idea who holds me in their heart with love.

    So many people
    have touched me deeply over the years
    that I could never gather them in a room,
    or even a stadium together.
    I have loved long and loved well . . .
    I’ve also loved badly.
    It’s all a mangled mash of blood and bone,
    sorrow and pain and ecstasy and joy
    that I can’t fully separate them into categories
    with concise little labels.
    My heart aches with love;
    it also breaks with love.
    My heart swells with love
    even to the bursting point.

    This life is messy,
    even in its enduring beauty . . .
    very hard to hold it all in my hands at one time.♥

    1. Joseph
      Joseph McCann
      5 days ago

      “This life is messy, even in its enduring beauty . . . very hard to hold it all in my hands at one time.” Similar to loose mercury or herding cats!, dear Sparrow.

      1. sparrow51014
        sparrow
        5 days ago

        Exactly,
        dear Joseph
        Exactly! ♥

  3. Robin Ann
    Robin Ann
    5 days ago

    The good Lord, my Nana who passed away when I was a teen. My parents, my Mom has been gone for 25 years now, but my Dad is still alive, my children, my very good friends throughout my life.

  4. Carol Ann Conner
    Carol
    5 days ago

    “enduring love” is an interesting concept. And when you ask me “whose” I carry with me, I can only carry my opinion who that might be. I feel certain that my mentor of 27 years was capable of “enduring love” or he would have given up on me many years ago! I would also put my son in that category!

    I found Richard Rohr’s meditation today very thought provoking. It’s about Jonah and the Whale. Hope you have time to read it.
    https://cac.org/daily-meditations/an-imperfect-messenger/

    1. sparrow51014
      sparrow
      5 days ago

      It sounds
      like you had a wonderful mentor,
      dear Carol . . . ♥

      ps. Thanks again,
      for Richard Rohr’s meditation.

  5. Mary
    Mary
    5 days ago

    Whose enduring love do I carry with me?
    I would have to say my Dad’s enduring love.
    My Dad passed in 2010. It took many years for me to accept that he was really gone.
    My Dad could be difficult, but his love was so pure and steadfast.
    There were times that it felt like his whole being was a vessel of love.
    When I picture my Dad, I can see him, standing in the driveway of the home I grew up in,
    waving goodbye to me, after I had been there for a visit.
    He would look at me as I pulled out of the driveway, with so much love.
    I could see his eyes tearing up, as he stood there waving and smiling.
    I could see his goodness and the purity of his love.
    If he is living in an afterlife, and able to do so,
    I know he is watching over my Mom, my younger sister, and myself,
    and sending down the pure and gentle energy of his abiding love.
    I love you, my sweet Dad, and I always will.

    1. Joseph
      Joseph McCann
      5 days ago

      ❤️

    2. Robin Ann
      Robin Ann
      5 days ago

      Beautiful

  6. Cathie
    Cathie
    5 days ago

    I carry the love of the family members who have showed me love as I grew up – unconditional love was what I learned through them.
    I also carry the love of ABBA, that immense creative energy who loved me into being and
    as vastly cosmic as ABBA is – there is that unmistakable, personal, annihilating love that hugs me during the toughest times.

  7. J
    Judith A
    6 days ago

    God’s love. Nothing can change that.

    I know that my partner loves me, despite all of my flaws, and I am positive that it qill be enduring, but as Antoinette already said: only God can love us truly unconditionally.

  8. Linda72766
    Linda
    6 days ago

    My husband. He is and always has been loving towards me, even when I don’t deserve it!

    1. Mary
      Mary
      5 days ago

      Dear Linda, you always deserve it. Always.

  9. Barb C
    Barb C
    6 days ago

    What a beautiful question! I can think of this question as both their love for me and my love for them.

    My parents, dead now but their love is alive in me.
    My sweetheart–tomorrow is our 18th anniversary.
    My amazing, precious daughters.
    My two closest friends.
    My siblings–the 4 still alive, the brother who drowned in 2016. My sisters-in-law. We’re not all equally close in everyday emotional terms but we are family.
    My dearest cousin, whom I got to see just recently for an evening of catching up over delicious food.
    My grandma on my mother’s side, who lives on in every stitch of knitting I create and my rare but fun trips to go bowling.

    1. Mary
      Mary
      5 days ago

      Barb, you have warmed my heart.

  10. Charlie T
    Charlie T
    6 days ago

    I carry my mother’s love. She was flawed, like all of us, and she was put in a very difficult position, but as benignly neglected as I felt, I never questioned her love for me, and I am grateful for that.
    There’s also the love of my oldest friends. They have seen me through some tough situations. I know I can call on them if I’m in need. And that’s a good feeling to have.

    1. Carol Ann Conner
      Carol
      5 days ago

      Charlie, Your answer is right on for me…the question is not about unconditional love. It is about enduring love. It’s about someone being there for us. I think loving me at many times has taken endurance!

  11. Yram
    Yram
    6 days ago

    A multitude of folks. My mother died 21 months after my birth. I am sure her love endures in me as well as all the ones that filled in to take her place.

    1. Joseph
      Joseph McCann
      5 days ago

      My Mother died when I was four dear Yram. I never thought about it till now but I believe her love endures in me also. Thank you.

  12. Laura
    Laura
    6 days ago

    God’s love, of course, and my mom’s, even though she’s been gone more than 20 years.

  13. Michele
    Michele
    6 days ago

    My children and my cat 🙂

    1. Mary
      Mary
      5 days ago

      ♥️

  14. L
    Loc Tran
    6 days ago

    Ngoc

    1. Mary
      Mary
      5 days ago

      Loc, you and Ngoc are such a beautiful couple.
      Is she visiting in California now?

      1. L
        Loc Tran
        5 days ago

        Yes, Mary. I’ll be going with my parents on Tuesday evening to pick her up to return home.

        1. Mary
          Mary
          5 days ago

          Wonderful!

  15. Patti
    sunnypatti
    6 days ago

    I carry the love of my husband, family, God, and myself.

    Have a peaceful Sunday, all.

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