Love

Right now it is 6:01am on a Sunday. So much is going on in my life and I don't really know where to begin. Life is crazy like that. I've yet to find a time when there isn't a lot going on in my life. I love having a full life, I really do, but some days I just need a break!

So I am giving myself a break and right now I'm focusing on happy thoughts and one of my happy thoughts is love. Love is wonderful and necessary. Love provides security. When we are loved we feel secure and safe.

I'm not talking about physical safety. We all have people that we love, and they know we love them, and they are over on the other side of the globe fighting a war. They are not as physically safe as we want them to be, but they are SAFE, because they know that we love them; emotionally they are protected. And sometimes that is all we can do.

We have to keep on loving, even when it hurts. Love is what this life is all about. We are need it, and studies show just how important love is in each stage of life. And yes, there are different types of love and we need to experience them all. Love is one of those gifts that the more we give the more we have.

Love is an exhausted mother rocking her baby at 330am, so he can sleep and grow. Love is a wife writing her husband a letter full of nothing, so that he has something tangible to read and hold while he is over in the sandbox. Love is a daughter hugging her mom as Mom leaves for deployment. Love is the soldier fighting to protect people he doesn't even know. Love is a kitty curled up on your lap as you watch TV. Love is a friend giving you the last cookie in the jar. Love is a husband and wife sitting together on the porch swing, holding hands after 60 years of being together. Love is a young boy stopping to give a little water to a turtle on a hot day. Love is a Savior hanging on a cross, listening to the insults, but refusing to come down, so that we could be with Him in Heaven for all eternity.

Isn't love grand!!!!!!