{"id":5630,"date":"2020-07-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=5630"},"modified":"2020-07-09T22:02:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T02:02:06","slug":"love-isnt-love-until","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/love-isnt-love-until\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Isn&#8217;t Love Until&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"Love Isn't Love Until....7\/10\/20\" height=\"122\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/dwbq2-e2b2df?from=yiiadmin&#038;download=1&#038;version=1&#038;skin=1&#038;btn-skin=107&#038;auto=0&#038;share=1&#038;fonts=Helvetica&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;pbad=1\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One night in New York, on Broadway, the great star Mary Martin was preparing to go on stage, as she had a 1000 times before, in Rodger &amp; Hammerstein&#8217;s South Pacific.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just before she took the stage a note was handed to her. The letter was signed Oscar Hammerstein who was on his deathbed that evening. The note was short. It simply said:&nbsp;<strong><em>\u201cDear Mary, A bell\u2019s not a bell until you ring it. A song\u2019s not a song until you sing it. Love in your heart is not put there to stay. Love isn\u2019t love till you give it away.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the play was over the cast rushed to her backstage and asked,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cWhat happened? We\u2019ve never seen you perform that way before?\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Mary read to them Hammerstein\u2019s note and said,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cTonight, I gave my love away.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can hear&nbsp;Jesus&#8217; words to Peter in what Mary Martin said:&nbsp;<strong><em>\u201cPeter do you love me? Feed my sheep.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;Jesus&nbsp;was saying,&nbsp;<strong><em>\u201cPeter you know the song. Sing it! Peter you&#8217;ve got the bell. Ring it! Peter, love isn&#8217;t love at all until you give it away.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Brett Blair<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Think of a time and a place when YOU gave your love away! In doing so, how did you make yourself a better person and the world around you a better place to live?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One night in New York, on Broadway, the great star Mary Martin was preparing to go on stage, as she had a 1000 times before, in Rodger &amp; Hammerstein&#8217;s South Pacific.&nbsp; Just before she took the stage a note was handed to her. 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