The document discusses the relationship between love and giving. It states that you can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving, as giving is a natural response to love. Giving also provides freedom to the other person, even if it means saying goodbye. The document explores how letting go can be an act of love that allows both people to grow. While painful, it provides the opportunity to heal and move forward in a healthy way.

2. Loving is
Giving
Lesson 4

3. Loving is
Giving?
Why
You can give
without loving,
but you can
never love
without giving.
Giving is a
natural
response of
love.
It gives
freedom to
the other
even if it
means saying
“goodbye”.

4. What are the prevailing
emotions in the
pictures?
Sadness Heartbroken

5. Pain Longing

7. Individual Task.
Write T (True) if you agree with the statement
and F (False) if you disagree.
_____ 1. The persona in the song expresses
the pain of letting go.
_____ 2.The persona, too, has let go of the
relationship.

8. _____ 3. The persona is aware of how things
will go in the end.
_____ 4. The persona and the beloved have
grown by letting go.
_____ 5. The persona is ready to love again.

9. Vocabulary
Buffet
Tether
Haven

10. I Watch you Go
I see your eyes, one final glance
as you look back at me,
and we both know it is time.
Although I swore
I would never have to let you go,
it's a promise I cannot keep. I
need to live and you need to
grow.

11. My heart folds back onto itself,
and I just bend my knees and
lower my center.
To withstand the buffet of the
winds that will blow by me,
and through me.
Without you standing there to
shelter me.

12. The tether is cut, and you are
free to fly.
And I lose an anchor, and my
cheeks burn,
from the icy wind and the few
tears that sneak past the wall that
I am leaning on so that I can
stand and watch you go.

13. And someday soon,
I think
I will find a haven
where I can cry the tears,
and let the salt water cleanse the
wounds
so they can begin to heal.
But now is not the time.

14. One hand raised.
I salute you
with a wave of good-bye.
Wishing you all the blessings of
this earth.
And when we meet again,
it won't be the same
but we will always know

15. how much we loved and trusted
and shared
victories, losses, adventures
and just the passage of time.
Look back no more.
Eyes to the future
and I will just sit here
and watch you go.

16. Write T (True) if you agree with the statement and F
(False) if you disagree.
_____ 1. The persona speaks more of courage in
letting go.
_____ 2. The persona asserts the need to let go.
_____ 3. The persona does not feel much hurt or
pain.
_____ 4. The persona still cares for the other person.
_____ 5. The persona treasures everything they have
been through.

17. HOMEWORK:
1. Read the story Wedding Dance by
Amador Daguio
2. Answer the preview items (Task 4)
before reading the text.

18. Something that
strikes with force.

19. A place where
you are protected
from danger.

20. A rope or chain that
is used to tie
something so that it
will stay in a
particular place