What love is

When I was in college I read the sappy novel "Love Story" and cried over it. The infamous line in it that says "love means never having to say you're sorry" truly IS sappy. True love DOES indeed say that you are sorry for your wrongs and sometimes even when you are not wrong. If the other person loves you back, they will forgive you and forget the wrong that was done.

Other thoughts on love:

Love is:

• being able to tell someone that their hair is sticking up, "just a little" in the back.
• being able to tell someone that they need a breath mint or that their zipper is down
• being able to discuss the hard things in a sane, quiet way without accusations and name calling
• not belittling others but building them up
• coming back to those hard conversations until they are resolved
• learning to laugh when things get tense
• believing the best, not the worst in others

Andrew Carnegie wrote these wise words:
"You develop people just like you mine gold,
When you mine gold, you don't go into the mountain looking for dirt.
You look for gold, no matter how small or how much dirt you have to push aside."

We can all learn better how to mine gold in those we love and even in those whom we don't know so well.

By the way, I told Arden some time ago that he could just get up every morning and say "I'm sorry". That should just about cover all of the mistakes he might make that day. LOL!!