Growing in Love

                  Growing in Love

To grow in love is to trust each other,

revealing your deepest sentiments and experiences,

thus becoming transparent to one another.

To grow in love is to listen to the other with deep interest,

understanding and appreciation,

putting yourself in his or her place.

To grow in love is for each one to give priority

to the desires and needs of the other

above one=s own needB to give rather than receive.

To grow in love is to give one=s self,

sacrificing one=s self for the happiness of the other.

To grow in love is to cease to be you

so that the beloved may be.

To grow in love is to dies to all egoism,

so that the Divine Love may manifest in and through you,

making of the two one in the Divine Beloved.

Francis Elmo