HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU BEEN IN LOVE

 

“How many times have you been in love, Grandpa?” His grandson asked one day….

His grandpa thought a moment, smiled and said, “Why, that’s difficult to say.”

“You see love appears in many shapes and sizes…

It’s very unpredictable…it’s is full of mystery and surprises.

There are many kinds of love out there…let me name a few…

I love your Grandma, I love your mom, your dad…

I love your brothers and sisters…and I love you too.

I love the sun, the moon, the clouds, the flowers and the trees

I love the mountains, the valleys, the rivers, the oceans and the seas.

All these different kinds of love…I hope, one day, you’ll know

Like watching a flower bloom in Spring, a Summer rain

the leaves cascade in Autumn…or a pure white Winter snow.

There’s love for all the animals that fly, swim, hop, run, crawl and walk…

There’s the love for our ability to smile, to laugh, to run…to sing…to cry…to talk.

I love that we have the ability to think…to imagine…to create…to dream…

and I can’t forget my love for cake, for cookies and ice cream.

Once you find the ability to love…you realize you have so much love to spare

and when you look at the world through eyes of love…you begin to find it everywhere.

And perhaps the most wonderful characteristic of love…is…that once you’ve found it…then

every time you experience something you fell in love with once…you fall in love with it again.

 

It’s why every time I see your grandma I fall in love with her 

as I have a thousand times before….

And why I fall in love with you…every time you walk through our front door.

So…when you ask me how many times have I been in love….

I’m not sure…because when love is overflowing…

I find in everything I do each day…

that number just keeps growing.”