A Bound Heart

by Laura Frantz

to return to innocent days of old before barren brides and shipwrecked dreams, gnawing hunger and sleepless nights.

He heaved a sigh. “Ye and I are spring lambs no longer.” “Five and twenty. Some call me a stayed lass, a spinster. Yet I look into the glass and expect to see a wee lass.”

In his company, I am grieved to the soul by a thousand tender recollections. Jane Austen

The devil’s boots don’t creak. Scottish proverb

“Scripture speaks to every situation we find ourselves in. Here’s a verse to cling to, one to keep ye afloat when worry swamps ye: ‘And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.’”

“Remember,” Magnus said at the last with a reassuring smile, “that even the wind and the waves obey Him.”

“None on the Isle of Kerrera,” she said quietly. “I stand on Scripture. Does the New Testament not say that God ‘hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation’? Can it be any clearer?”

Heaven seemed to come down when the slaves sang. There was no accounting for such beauty in a people so repressed. Mayhap God had gifted them with music to weather such a time well.

love thee, I love but thee, with a love that shall not die, till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old. Shakespeare

“Almighty God, who at the beginning did create our first parents, Adam and Eve, and did sanctify and join them together in marriage, pour upon you the riches of His grace, sanctify and bless you, that ye may please Him both in body and soul, and live together in holy love unto your lives’ end. Amen.”