Love, God's way

I was pondering a few things throughout the day, and thinking particular about some of the things I have been re-learning over the last few weeks, and a line from this sonnet by Shakespeare came to mind. No, I don’t read and memorize sonnets, but it was in a movie I remembered. Anyway, I was reminded of the line ‘it is an ever fixed mark’ and was struck by it again in the context of God, and his love for us. There are so many things that are uncertain in this world but not this. It doesn’t change or alter, shrink, or is dependent on variables and conditions. It is never shaken, wanders, betrays, or impedes, but is indeed an ever fixed mark in which we can trust! How awesome!

SONNET 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.