Love is patient, love is kind.

My boyfriend just left for a business trip for 3 weeks. I am going to miss him! This picture shows a rose that he gave me on Valentine's day this year.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

I definitely think these verses (and the rest of chapter 13) are addressing more than just romantic love. Sometimes it's hard to have love like this when people wrong us. We need to remember that we are all sinners and we have hurt others, even our friends and family, too. We all need to love and to forgive, and Jesus is the best example of this kind of love. He experienced humiliation and pain on the cross to give his life for us.

Hot hot hot

Here are some photos from a cruise that I went on two weeks ago. The cruise began and ended in Miami, Florida, and stopped at four islands during the week. The Caribbean is so different from Canada. The warm weather was refreshing and the islands were like little pieces of tropical paradise. My boyfriend laughed when he saw children riding in the back of a fast-moving truck on our way to Tulum, Mexico; something you would never see in Canada. I loved hearing Spanish and seeing all sorts of vegetation that grows in these hot places. It was sad to see how some people can have so little. In Ocho Rios, Jamaica, everyone wants to sell you something or give you a taxi ride, and then you look up to see that the mountains are lined with million dollar homes.

Miami, Florida - using the vivid blue setting on my camera.

A shop in Labadee, Haiti.

Beach in Mexico, near Tulum.

Tulum, Mexico.

My first blog post, ever!

Hi,

I'm Stephanie and I'm very pleased to meet you :)

This is my first blog of any sort, and I must say that I am excited about having a place to store my thoughts. My brain is full of them. I hope to update my blog at least every month to share with you some of my experiences and some of my questions. Perhaps I will even be able to post a few of my crafts and photos along the way too. Enjoy!

Sending you a smile,

Steph

P.S. I know the our Canadian winter has been brutally cold this year, so I hope the flowers remind you that spring is just around the corner, yay! I took this photo in beautiful Tobermory, Ontario.