Thursday, 30 April 2009

• The Prom/Banquet/Thoughts on Love

  Schools around here have a tradition of the yearly prom/banquet.  It is tradition to ask your girlfriend in a creative way to attend the event.  Just when you think all the best ideas have been used...someone pulls a really good one!  This year, balloons have been arranged in the word "Banquet" and presented at a soccer game....bathtubs/showers have been decorated to give the unsuspecting early riser a surprise....puzzles have been given etc.  I thought my son had a brilliant idea when he ordered custom made soda bottle and on the back label he wrote a poem asking his girlfriend to go to the banquet.  He presented this to her one evening as they were fishing (bless her heart!) and he got her a drink!  She said yes ....they have been together for almost two years.

  Now, many of these relationships will be just for the evening and they will fizzle and die...some may continue forever.......but this auspicious occasion brings out the romance in all of us !  I was reminded what CS Lewis wrote about Love.

  To love at all is to be vulnerable.  Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.  If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one....not even an animal.  Wrap it up carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements: lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.  But in that casket---safe, dark, motionless, airless---it will change!

  Below is a picture of the soda bottle that Andrew gave as an invitation.

  

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