My young cousin cut a small piece of birch tree and used his woodburning kit to burn a heart with my wife and I's name into it, like a couple of teenagers would carve their names into a tree trunk. I love that gift and will keep it forever.

What was your favorite gift and why?

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.