Show your love
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, love and romance are center stage. Flowers, cards, chocolates and romantic dinners are being planned.
I remember how when I was a child, I drew hearts with arrows in my school notebooks, sometimes even adding a special name. The word crush and love were synonymous in my young mind.
I moved on to the dating world, with all its ups and downs. Ultimately, I met the love of my life, my now husband, in college. He was different than the other frogs I kissed. Bob was both my best friend and my lover, all wrapped in one. We planned a fairytale wedding and a fairytale life, that we since learned does not exist.
Still, I believed love meant sparks, butterflies kisses and commitment. When my children were born though, I learned about a new kind of love with a depth that was both thrilling and terrifying, all at the same time. It stunned me how these tiny humans instantly owned my heart.
Fast forward 20 some years and I have experienced love and loss in many forms. I used to believe love was a feeling that comes over you and warms your heart, like a cozy blanket on a cold night. Now I realize love is not a feeling at all, but rather an action.
Everyday we wake is a new chance to live in love or live in fear, hate or discord. Ask yourself which feels better. Nothing sustains love… except love. The kind word, pat on the back, smile or a million other, small or grand acts of love, pile up and up to form our grandiose image of it.
Whomever you love, take action every single day that conveys it. None of us know when our last breath will be, but in the end, all that will matter is how much we loved and were loved.
Peace & Love,
Cindy
