10/200 lessons on love I have learnt and bravely live by.

1. These are 10/200 things I’ve learnt
about love. By Precious K

2. Love does not bring fear nor does it
bring to shame, to dress it in such rags
and boast of its power is to bear false
witness against it while it stands in the
gallows.
Precious.

3. Love is a big wild cry madly let out without
reservation. Its elevated note rings true and is easy
to understand, for it comes from a platform of
equities familiar to the soul, it comes from
patience, humility, trust, faith and hope. Like a
guttural roar love travels sent without hesitation
and arrives with the transformative power of these
qualities.
Precious.

4. Love is an urgent message; even the trees wait on it.
Care.
Precious.

5. Loves’ hands are the contrast of an animals’ claws.
The claw is designed to fix what is in its grasp so
that though it moves at a terrifying speed it is
designed not to drop what is in its possession and
the more what is in its grip tries to free itself , the
more the claws fasten around it, the more the nails
dig in and tear into, in a bid to strengthen their
hold and not lose what they have. Loves’ hands are
weak in muscle power, they cannot clutch.
Precious.

6. Love is brave it goes to places where a
courageous man would not without armour.
Barren of weapons, love trots there on foot, in
the pathways and through the forests, love
goes where no one dares to go because love
reckons in itself for those outside of safe reach,
love thinks of them.
Precious.

7. Love is a thought and prayer sent to the open skies,
unrestrained by borders of self-doubt or fear, it is
attention spared for individuals in places where a
human hand cannot be drawn-out to handover a
parcel of food or a gift of clothing nor an ear opened
to listen or humility presented unreservedly by
sitting down beside someone who has lost to uplift
them and concede their despair is felt and that their
need has reached an open approachable heart.
Precious.

8. Love is a prayer that hope, of any arrangement,
may reach folks that one will never meet.
Precious.

9. Love is holding out your hand to reach for a person
next to you without looking at them to see the colour
of their skin, without looking into their eyes to try and
read their heart, its convictions, the sincerity or depth
of the pain they show in their face…
Precious.

10. Love is clutching safely in your hand what you hold
precious but rather choose to give away , reaching
out without really seeing to whom you reach out to,
and placing in their hand what is in yours..
Precious.

11. ….and then holding their hand closed with
yours to ensure what you have given is indeed
received. Love is sharing so that the next
person can say thank you in any language and
it would mean to a heart that just gave, “...it is
in my hand”.
Precious.

12. …so let oceans pour out into rivers, and rivers
filter into streams, sieve into brooks and flow fast
to the edge of a cliff to their fall into a beautiful
waterfall. Let even the rain pour till it loses its zeal
and slows its pulse to a drizzle, then to a few
drops as the wind shakes off her skirts, let the rain
be. Look upon these simple acts of God and learn
this by heart, “be patient in all things”, it is an
attribute of love.
Precious.