July 31, 2008

A Love Story

A Love Story

Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived:

Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others including Love.

One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all repaired their boats and left.

Love wanted to persevere until the last possible moment. When the island was almost sinking, Love decided to ask for help. Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said, "Richness, can you take me with you?"

Richness answered, "No, I can't. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you."

Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel, "Vanity, please help me!"

"I can't help you Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat," Vanity answered.

Sadness was close by so Love asked for help, "Sadness, let me go with you."

"Oh....Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!"

Happiness passed by Love too, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her!

Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come Love, I will take you." It was an elder. Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that he even forgot to ask the elder his name. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went his own way.

Love, realizing how much he owed the elder and asked Knowledge, another elder, "Who was the person who helped me?"

"It was Time," Knowledge answered.

"Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?"

Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because, only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is."


~Anna Kathryn (who didn't write this, but is just passing it along)

17 comments:

CrystalGB said...

What a great story. :)

Kathleen said...

Lovely!

Anonymous said...

What a great love story. I can't believe today is the last day of July.

Chicks of Characterization said...

Great story! Anna, I just wanted to take a minute to thank you and all the other authors for all the hard work you put into this contest! Its been fabulous!!! Thanks again,

Andrea :O)

Unknown said...

I loved this story. There is so much truth in it.

Meljprincess said...

Fantastic!

Jane said...

What a lovely story.

cheryl c said...

Awww...what a sweet story!

Thank you for a fun month. I appreciate the time that you and the guest authors have devoted to the July blog. I have discovered some new authors, and I have gotten to know you!

Debby said...

What a lovely story

Michelle said...

That was different and very nicely written.

Caffey said...

Its so beautiful, thanks for passing it on to us.

Drea said...

Thank you. I really enjoyed that and what a fantastic way to end a great month! Thank you so much and I feel blessed to meet so many wonderful people during this "Christmas" season!
*hugs*
Drea

Zulmara said...

Time...what an intriguing concept...hard to get a handle on it...

ADELANTE!!!

Zulmara

Karin said...

Very nice!--thank you.

Cherie J said...

Wow! That was beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

Dena said...

I've read this before and love it!

Linda Banche said...

Wow, this is great. What a wonderful story, not just for Christmas in July, but for all year.