Love is a special way of feeling

Love is a special way of feeling...

It is the way we feel when we sit on our mother's lap with her arms around us tight and close.

It is the good way we feel when we talk to someone and they want to listen and don't tell us to go away and be quiet

It is the happy way we feel when we save a bird that has been hurt...
or feed a lost cat...
or calm a frightened colt.

Love is found in unexpected places...
it is there in the quiet moment when we first discover a beautiful thing...
when we watch a bird soar high against a pale blue sky...

when we see a lovely flower that no one else has noticed...

when we find a place that shelters us and is all our very own.

Love starts in little ways...
It may begin the day we first share our thoughts with someone else...

or help someone who needs us...

Or, sometimes, it begins because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.

Love comes quietly...
but you know when it is there, because, suddenly you are not alone any more...
and there is no sadness inside you.

Love is a happy feeling that stays inside your heart for the rest of your life.




(This is the text in 'Love is a special way of feeling' by Joan Walsh Anglund. A kids book...but it resonates nonetheless and the pictures are exquisite)

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