image
image
image

҉

PART IV

image

“... 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 wand’ring 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.”

~ “Sonnet 116,” William Shakespeare

“Greater love has no one than this: To lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

~ John 15:13, NIV