{"id":347,"date":"2012-02-15T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/write-vision-wednesday_15\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T19:24:06","slug":"write-vision-wednesday_15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/write-vision-wednesday_15\/","title":{"rendered":"Write the Vision ~ Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YmGP5grKLJE\/Tzu9barePzI\/AAAAAAAAAA0\/cjI0DNO_Z7g\/s1600\/woven%2Bwreath.gif\" style=\"font-style: normal; \"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 310px;\" src=\"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/woven-wreath.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709365231338012466\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the week of Valentine&#8217;s Day, thoughts often turn to love. \u2665 <\/p>\n<p>This week my pastor&#8217;s message made me ponder how we express love on Valentine&#8217;s Day and throughout the year. Often we receive or give flowers as an expression of love, but flowers die, roses fade&#8230;so really that&#8217;s not the best representation of love&#8211;something dead and dying, wilted and withered, dried and fading.  So what is the perfect love, the one that we should emulate&#8211;write about?  The love God showed toward us. <\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"font-style: normal; \"> <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: normal; \"><\/div>\n<ol style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); \">\n<li class=\"first\" style=\"list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px; \">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">O Love that wilt not let me go,<\/i><\/div>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">I rest my weary soul in thee;<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">I give thee back the life I owe,<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">That in thine ocean depths its flow<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">May richer, fuller be.<\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none; margin-top: 1em; \">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">O light that foll\u2019west all my way,<\/i><\/div>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">I yield my flick\u2019ring torch to thee;<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">My heart restores its borrowed ray,<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">That in thy sunshine\u2019s blaze its day<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">May brighter, fairer be.<\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none; margin-top: 1em; \">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">O Joy that seekest me through pain,<\/i><\/div>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">I cannot close my heart to thee;<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">I trace the rainbow through the rain,<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">And feel the promise is not vain,<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">That morn shall tearless be.<\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none; margin-top: 1em; \">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">O Cross that liftest up my head,<\/i><\/div>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">I dare not ask to fly from thee;<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">I lay in dust life\u2019s glory dead,<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">And from the ground there blossoms red<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"font-size: 100%; \">Life that shall endless be.<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">George Mattheson <\/div>\n<p><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div><i><br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>God Bless and Happy Writing<br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the week of Valentine&#8217;s Day, thoughts often turn to love. \u2665 This week my pastor&#8217;s message made me ponder how we express love on Valentine&#8217;s Day and throughout the year. 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