Love Is In The Air

February 12, 2022

Love is in the air. Love is in the air because it is Valentine’s Day weekend. February 14th is actually the day, but if you play your cards right it could be a three-day event especially if you have already been shopping and already have ordered flowers. If you are able to take Monday off, then wow, how much better could it be for you? It could be like a second honeymoon. Being a doer and not a procrastinator can really pay off for you this weekend. Before you get too excited, let us take a minute to think about what love really is. Love is more than flowers, candy and presents. Love is the most important thing in your life, whether you are dating, newly married, celebrating your fiftieth anniversary or never been married at all. Love is not only for the lovers. Love is for everyone. For everyone, not just on Valentine’s Day, but on every day. Think of love as one of the two things you cannot live without. The other necessity is oxygen. No oxygen no life. No love, and you are dead. Love is not a calendar event. Love is the miracle of being alive. It is appreciation and gratitude for your very life. Love is an incredibly strong emotion that must be satisfied if you are going to survive. Love is caring about someone else in your life so very much. Love is so personal that you love each person you love in a different way. Love is custom made to be shared by two people at a time. You love your parents, you love your spouse, you love your children, you love your siblings, you love your dog or cat, and let us not forget how much you love your grandparents. (I Just thought I would throw that in.) Love is a word with many meanings. One time I counted how many people I had loved in my lifetime, living or dead. When I counted, I could name twenty people. Twenty people and out of the twenty, when I counted, only six were still alive. Only twenty people in the whole world during my whole lifetime had I loved at that time when I was counting. That is not a lot. Sometime if you happen to be at a movie theater count twenty people. I bet you could fit more than twenty people in one row. Each of my twenty people are or have been very important to me. I love or have loved each and every one for different reasons. Some of my relatives were not on the list because I did not have time to get to know those people. Maybe they were too old or maybe I am too old as a new generation of babies is coming into the family. I will never get to know the upcoming generation, but I will have known their parents, grandparents, or other family members and that will connect the very old with the very young. I will feel love toward these little people because of those connections, but I will not live long enough to develop a loving relationship with them. The point I am making is that every loving relationship you have is to be so appreciated. You should be grateful for every loving relationship you have ever had. You don’t have to buy everyone you love flowers, sometimes a visit, a phone call or a kindness to a person who you claim to love will go a long way to prove you can walk the walk as much as you can talk the talk. Love is not lip service. Love is smiling just because someone makes you so happy that you can’t help but to smile when you are thinking about them or are with them. Love is helping another person when they are doing the necessities of life. Sometimes making the bed or doing the dishes together or shoveling the snow says I love you. Love is a necessity. Love is your connection to God. God is able to love everyone, living or dead, unconditionally. Can you love the people you love unconditionally? Or do you take your love away when you do not agree with someone about something? That is crazy. Love is not a bargaining chip. Love is a forever thing. You do not earn love it is a gift. You cannot play with the hearts of those near and dear to you. Think about love as being your lifeline and start waking up to what a gift you have been given, and what a gift you have given to others. Happy Valentine’s Day. No matter how you are celebrating make it a great day… or a great three-day event.

Granny-o