High on Happiness

Posts Tagged ‘Kindess’

As I walked along the dry edges of the creek snapping photos, I found myself wondering what aspect of happiness I would write about tonight.  Then I looked down and laughed.

Right in front of me a heart shaped piece of blue, water-buffed glass rested on the rocks.  “Love; Rocks,” my brain labeled the scene.

Synchronicities are just so cool.

“Love rocks, hey?”  I said to myself.  “Can’t argue with that.”  Especially in spring, when all the earth’s critters – even the featherless two-legged kind – have romance on the brain.

Here’s to romance!  Here’s to the force that makes the world go ‘round.  Here’s to the birds and the bees.

Here’s to love’s toughness and strength, to its tenderness and generosity.  Here’s to the way it opens us up, letting us see the world through each other’s eyes.  Love rocks.

Love lifts us and comfort us.  It nurtures and corrects.  It forgives and heals us and inspires us to reach for our very highest selves.

Love lets us see the best in each other, and in ourselves.  It lets us tolerate each other  when we’re not too sure we like each other’s quirks and shortcomings.  “We like each other because,” the saying goes; “We love each other anyway.”  Love rocks.

Love delights and sparkles our lives.  It gives them depth and meaning.  It turns strangers into neighbors, and neighbors into friends, and friends into families and communities. It connects.  It supports.  It builds.

Love is the highest, truest thing we know, the most universal, the very stuff from which everything is made, the essence of life.  It sings itself through all that is.  It transcends time and space.

Love is in every gentle touch, every laugh, every smile, every word of gratitude and kindness, every gesture of giving.  It’s the basis for every virtue.  It’s what gives us courage and gives life zest.  Love rocks.

Open your spigots and let love flow.  Pour yourself a mug of it.  Splash some around.
The more of it you give away, the more of it you get.  And that is its miracle and magic.

Love rocks.