Heart lock and key printable gift box

I hope you enjoy this heart themed box to print and make. Click on the image for a larger version, print on card stock, cut out, score folds, fold, glue.

So how are we doing? Still hurting. Christmas, William's birthday, Dad's birthday without Dad... it's hard. There is still so much to do at his apartment, and I was working on finishing up a coloring book. Staying busy. We laugh though, laugh at memories, laugh at life. We are treating each other gently, and saying "I love you" an awful lot.

Martin Luther King Jr. on Love- printable word art

At Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama on November 17, 1957, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a sermon about loving your enemies. This printable is an excerpt of that sermon. You can read the sermon in full here. (King Institute site). Click the image for a larger version to print.

For the printable, I decided to put the Ancient Greek for each type of love next to what Dr. King had to say about it. The excerpted part reads-
"The Greek language, as I’ve said so often before, is very powerful at this point. It comes to our aid beautifully in giving us the real meaning and depth of the whole philosophy of love. And I think it is quite apropos at this point, for you see the Greek language has three words for love, interestingly enough. It talks about love as eros. That’s one word for love. Eros is a sort of, aesthetic love. Plato talks about it a great deal in his dialogues, a sort of yearning of the soul for the realm of the gods. And it’s come to us to be a sort of romantic love, though it’s a beautiful love. Everybody has experienced eros in all of its beauty when you find some individual that is attractive to you and that you pour out all of your like and your love on that individual. That is eros, you see, and it’s a powerful, beautiful love that is given to us through all of the beauty of literature; we read about it.

Then the Greek language talks about philia, and that’s another type of love that’s also beautiful. It is a sort of intimate affection between personal friends. And this is the type of love that you have for those persons that you’re friendly with, your intimate friends, or people that you call on the telephone and you go by to have dinner with, and your roommate in college and that type of thing. It’s a sort of reciprocal love. On this level, you like a person because that person likes you. You love on this level, because you are loved. You love on this level, because there’s something about the person you love that is likeable to you. This too is a beautiful love. You can communicate with a person; you have certain things in common; you like to do things together. This is philia.

The Greek language comes out with another word for love. It is the word agape. And agape is more than eros;agape is more than philia; agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it’s what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them. You look at every man, and you love him because you know God loves him. And he might be the worst person you’ve ever seen."

Martin Luther King Jr. printable quote 2- Corrected

"Are we seeking power for power's sake? Or are we seeking to make the world and our nation better places to live. If we seek the latter, violence can never provide the answer. The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." 

From the Strength to Love speech

 

The above image is web sized and shown full size. The one below is 300 dpi and prints out at 8x10.5 inches, so on a sheet of US letter paper, it will have 1/4 inch margins. I hope you enjoy it.  Click on the image for the full sized version.

Edit:  The original quote that I used was the one below. But the first sentence was added by someone else to the original quote. I remembered the "Hate cannot drive out hate" part assumed the rest was correct.   

 "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." --Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. printable quote

With Martin Luther King Jr. Day coming up soon, I wanted to make something to celebrate this amazing man and his life. The quote I picked is one that also reminds me of my mother because it's something she said a lot as well. "Life's most persistent and urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'".
First I made this printable art piece, it's 300 ppi and will print out at 8x10 inches. Click on the image for the full sized version and feel free to re-color it.

Then I decided that I wanted to do a coloring page with the same quote and worked on this yesterday. Drawing the frame was a lot of fun. Click on the image for the full sized version.