"Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice at wrong but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. So faith, hope, love abide,these three, but the greatest of these is love."

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you - to give you a future and a hope. And when you call upon me and search for me with your whole heart I will hear you, and you shall find me and I will gather you up...and bring you to your homeland and you shall be my people and I will be your God." jeremiah 29:11-14.

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away...behold all things have become new." revelation 21:4.

"I have loved you with an everlasting love and have drawn you with lovingkindness. I will gather you and bring you together...and give you one heart and one way. And I will fulfill to you my promise. I will never stop doing good to you and will assuredly plant you in your own land with all my heart and soul. And I will bless you and give you a future and a hope. I will lead you beside the water brooks and make your life a watered garden. And you shall be radiant over the goodness and bounty of the Lord. And this is my covenant with you: I will put my law in your minds and write my ways upon your heart and you will know me. I will be your God and you shall be my people." selections from jeremiah 29&31

When you were an infant, I loved you, and out of the darkness I called you my child. It was I who taught you to walk and I took you up in my arms. But you did not know that I comforted you. I led you with cords of kindness, with bands of love. I was to you a mother who lifts her infant to her cheek. I bent down to you and fed you. How shall I ever give you up? My heart recoils. My passion is kindled warm and tender. I could not lift my hand to hurt you. For it is I who gave you life, and my spirit is ever with you. Return to me child, that I may keep you and hold what is good. I will renew your spirit as the garden dew and love you freely and you will flourish. Your beauty will blossom, and your fragrance go forth as wine." Hosea prphr 11:1-9,14:1-7

"They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint." Isaiah 40:31.

"The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace." Numbers 6:24-26

"I was hungry and you gave me food, thirsty, and you gave me drink, a stranger, and you welcomed me, naked, and you clothed me, sick, and you visited me, in prison, and you came to me. Truly I tell you, inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these, you have done it unto me." jesus in matthew 25:35

"From the ends of the earth I have sought you and before you were born I called you by name. I formed you in your mother's womb and made you my child. I adorned you with grace and perfected your beauty. And as a mother remembers the child at her breast I have engraved you in the palms of my hands and I cannot forget you. You are precious to me and I love you. I have inscribed your heart with my covenant and will prosper your hands to lead the blind and imprisoned from darkness, and restore hope and justice to the oppressed. Nations will know I have blessed you for among them you will be my chosen child in whom I display my splendor." selections from isaiah, psalms, and ezekiel.

"The Lord's unfailing love and mercy still continue, fresh as the morning, as sure as the sunrise. The Lord is all I have and so in Him I put my hope. The Lord is good to everyone who waits upon Him, to the soul that seeks Him." Lamentations 3:22-25