Love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you,

Matthew 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.

Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Matthew 19:19 Honor thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Matthew 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Mark 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Luke 6:27 ¶But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,

John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

John 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.

(ALL THE ABOVE SCRIPTURES WERE SPOKEN BY JESUS. THE ONES BELOW WERE WRITTEN BY HIS DISCIPLES AND THEY REINFORCE WHAT HE HAD TAUGHT THEM.)

Romans 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

James 2:8 ¶If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:


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Enemy:From Latin inimicus, in- not + amicus friend (not my friend)

Enemy: someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else

Matthew 13:39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil

1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death

The Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival is this weekend!

The 38th Annual
Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival
Saturday May 7
9 AM to 6 PM &
Sunday May 8
9 AM to 5 PM, 2011





Howard County Fairgrounds
2210 Fairground Road
West Friendship, MD
21794-9604

Celtic Spring Meditation

One year in my Garden

Devils' Dyke Morris Men at the Thriplow Daffodil Festival

This is a video of the Devils' Dyke Morris Men at the Thriplow Daffodil Festival near Cambridge, England on Sunday 29th March 2009. You can see how much latter spring is here in Western, NY. We have daffodils blooming right now and its May 3! This has been a cold spring and I think the flowers are maybe a week or two late is all however.

http://www.thriplow.org.uk/

Corinna's Going a-Maying

Get up, get up for shame, the blooming Morn
Upon her wings presents the god unshorn.
See how Aurora throws her fair
Fresh-quilted colours through the air;
Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see
The dew bespangling herb and tree.
Each flower has wept, and bow'd toward the east,
Above an hour since; yet you not drest,
Nay! not so much as out of bed?
When all the birds have matins said,
And sung their thankful hymns, 'tis sin,
Nay, profanation, to keep in,
Whenas a thousand virgins on this day
Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.

Rise; and put on your foliage, and be seen
To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green;
And sweet as Flora. Take no care
For jewels for your gown, or hair;
Fear not, the leaves will strew
Gems in abundance upon you;
Besides, the childhood of the day has kept,
Against you come, some orient pearls unwept;
Come and receive them while the light
Hangs on the dew-locks of the night;
And Titan on the eastern hill
Retires himself, or else stands still
Till you come forth. Wash, dress, be brief in praying;
Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying.

Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark
How each field turns a street, each street a park
Made green and trimm'd with trees; see how
Devotion gives each house a bough
Or branch; each porch, each door ere this
An ark, a tabernacle is,
Made up of white-thorn, neatly interwove;
As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Can such delights be in the street
And open fields and we not see't?
Come, we'll abroad; and let's obey
The proclamation made for May,
And sin no more, as we have done, by staying;
But my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.

There's not a budding boy, or girl, this day,
But is got up, and gone to bring in May.
A deal of youth, ere this, is come
Back, and with white-thorn laden, home.
Some have despatch'd their cakes and cream,
Before that we have left to dream;
And some have wept, and woo'd, and plighted troth,
And chose their priest, ere we can cast off sloth;
Many a green-gown has been given;
Many a kiss, both odd and even;
Many a glance too has been sent
From out the eye, love's firmament;
Many a jest told of the keys betraying
This night, and locks pick'd, yet we're not a-Maying.

Come, let us go, while we are in our prime;
And take the harmless folly of the time.
We shall grow old apace, and die
Before we know our liberty.
Our life is short, and our days run
As fast away as does the sun;
And as a vapour, or a drop of rain,
Once lost, can ne'er be found again,
So when or you or I are made
A fable, song, or fleeting shade,
All love, all liking, all delight
Lies drown'd with us in endless night.
Then while time serves, and we are but decaying,
Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.

By Robert Herrick

To Daffadills

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain’d his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song;
And, having pray’d together, we
Will go with you along.

We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away,
Like to the summer’s rain;
Or as the pearls of morning’s dew,
Ne’er to be found again.

- Robert Herrick