This week’s message adheres to poetry, rather than prose. “Why’s that?” you may ask. Simple: Valentine’s Day, the holiday for our affairs of heart. For some it is a day when two people risk their hearts for love. In that risk, some may win and some may lose, and as a dear friend of mine described it, poetry, love and romance are the things that we live for. The things, I believe, that bring us closer to God and our divine nature. Happy Valentine’s Day Something to Share with Your Valentine The Bait by John Donne Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks. There will the river whispering run Warm’d by thy eyes, more than the sun; And there the ‘enamour’d fish will stay, Begging themselves they may betray. When thou wilt swim in that live bath, Each fish, which every channel hath, Will amorously to thee swim, Gladder to catch thee, than thou him. If thou, to be so seen, be’st loth, By sun or moon, thou dark’nest both, And if myself have leave to see, I need not

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