Counting Your Loves
What do you think about when you think about love?
Love is not stuck to a romantic connotation. Love arrives in so many ways, in so many relationships, from so many directions.
Everyone has heard the talks of what someone’s love language is. Maybe you know what yours is or what your partner’s is. But what about your loves? All of them. Have you ever stopped to make a list of all the things, people and places you love? Those that make you feel full, alive, welcome and bursting.
The coffee shop that has your favorite drink with your favorite corner to sit in.
The spring air when it finally feels warm after the winter months.
When you’re out for a walk and someone’s garden flowers catch your nose and smell just like that spring sunshine.
The book you could read a million times over. The pages are dog-eared. Maybe there are notes in the margins or highlights in the really good parts. The cover is worn but it never, never gets old.
The movie that gives you goosebumps no matter how many times you’ve seen it. That you stop to watch if you catch it on TV, because how can you not.
The friend who just knows you. Knows what you’re going to order, knows what time is good for you, what you’re going to wear, all the places you have wounds that you cover and that no matter how long it has been since you’ve talked or seen each other you pick up right where you left off.
Your favorite blanket with hot tea when it gets chilly.
Getting time with one of your favorite human beings where you can just be and no one and nothing else demands your attention.
Someone's hand on your back while you walk through a room. Not pushing, but just enough so that you know they are still there.
The fresh flowers you buy every week at farmers market for your kitchen simply because you will smile for the full week every time you see them on your table.
So what are your loves? Those places that make your insides get extra soft for a minute and you think to yourself “yep, this right here” with a giant smile on your face. You’ve probably heard from people and songs and literature about counting your blessings. In the mix, imagine how long that list could be if you added all of your loves to it.