I gave her the plant first a while ago and it grew and had to be cropped and it is now two plants. But 10 days ago I carved this spoon for her. A fusion of cultures. The practice or carving love spoons is a Welsh habit I don't know when it dates from but I wanted to do something special. It has Chinese and Korean carved into the surface and then stained. The inner wood takes the staining more intensely, hence the dark lettering.
Chapman's 5 languages of love are words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. These in a sense are the communication mediums of love. I'm weird because I like all and love to do all. perhaps its more a matter of balance not to exclude one. But love needs to find its roots, source and sustenance in God. For love is like a plant which need feeding and being watered.
God has so impregnated the soul with his own life that it can no longer love itself except in God and for God. God always remains the primary object of our love (177) Marriage is a synthesis of every love known to the heart of man. Nothing could be truer, for it makes it appeal to the most physiological love , which is sexual attraction, as well as the most spiritual love, which is charity [read charitas, agape, or Christian love] (187) Charles V Heris The Spirituality of Love
