What Is Love To You?

What is love to you?
This is what it means to me.

LOVE
how do you measure love, by a word or a deed .By the way someone looks at you or makes you feel when you are near them. Or is it by the things they buy you. Do you measure love by a by how much they do for you.

Love is measured by the husband that is happy to sit on the porch swing and talk with his wife. Love is the husband who bring flowers home for no reason at all. Love is the husband that is faithful in word and deed to his wife. Love is the husband that sits in the room of his aging wife and sings to her and holds her hand and remembers even then why he fell in love with her.

Love is measured by the wife who cleans, irons and provides for her husband and her children without complaint. Love is the wife that does not compare her husband to anyone else but loves him for who he is. Love is the wife that shares her most hidden secrets with her husband. Love is the wife that sits in the room of her aging husband and share memories of their life together and brushes his hair and remembers all the reasons she married him even when he doesn’t remember her.

Love is measured by the mother that teaches her children how to love and to be love, it is a mother who cleans the cuts on the knees and elbows for her children. Love is kissing their boo boo’s and looking for the monsters under their bed at night. Love is the mother that tucks you in at night and tells her children a bedtime story. Love is the mother that wipes away your tears and assures you everything is alright.

Love is the father that teaches his daughter how to dance and that talks to her about love and life . Love is the father that watches her grow and that gives her wings to fly when she is ready. Love is walking her giving a kiss on her wedding day , then giving her away .

Love is the father that that sets aside time to take his son fishing, and the father who teaches his son how to drive. Love is the father that listens as his children share their life with him. Love is the father that teaches by example.

Love is measured by the children that when they are young that show respect for their parents. Love is the child that listens to the instruction of his mother and father. Love is the child that takes the hand of an aging parent that no longer can do for themselves. Love is the child that pushes the wheelchair of their aging parent and talking to them. love is the child that sits by the bedside of their parent and calms their fears and wipes away their tears .

Love is measured by someone who reaches out to help someone whose car is broke down, giving bread to the hungry. Love is caring for someone that cannot care for themselves any more. Love is freely giving without expecting anything in return. Love is a simple smile a kind word and a hand that reaches out to offer help to those in need. Love is touching a life and giving of yourself without reservation.

What is love to you? please comment.