Allow Love to Happen
Love is really a 'many splendoured thing', appearing in so many different shades and flavours. Falling in love with someone special, loving your child, honouring a parent or teacher, enjoying and hanging out with friends. It's St. Valentine's Day tomorrow - where romantic love reigns supreme in the exchange of cards, gifts and cuddly red hearts. Romantic love many centuries ago was different. Troubadours sang about courtly love, the expression of love that would never be answered in the flesh; unrequited love. Part of the motivation of this was that the knight, the one pursuing his never-to-be-owned lady, could then discover a divine love within. Great tales and songs of these lovers still exist today - Tristan and Isolde - is one. Something in us is touched by romantic love taken to such a height that it seems not of the earth. A love longed for, sacrificed for, but never attained in marriage or even a one-night fling. It seems craz...