love is a special way of feeling

Last year I bought a little vintage children's book called Love Is A Special Way of Feeling by Joan Walse Anglund and it has been sitting on my bookshelf for a few months since I last read it. Today I took it down and it reminded me of some of the simple ways we are called to love others.

The simplicity and innocent sweetness of this book reminds me also of Pro-Life ideas. Why is our world so quick to help a lost cat or a frightened colt but we fail to help the tiny humans, the unborn children? Anyways, I just really liked this little book and reading it while thinking about Life made sense to me.

Love is a special way of feeling...

It is the safe way we feel when we sit on our mother's lap with her arms around us tight and close.

It is the good way we feel when we talk to someone and they want to listen and don't tell us to go away and be quiet.

It is the happy way we feel when we save a bird that has been hurt...

or feed a lost cat...

or calm a frightened colt.

Love is found in unexpected places...
It is there in the quiet moment when we fist discover a beautiful thing...
when we watch a bird soar high against a pale blue sky...

when we see a lovely flower that no one else has noticed...

when we find a place that shelters us and is all our very own.

Love starts in little ways...
It may begin the day we first share our thoughts with someone else...

or help someone who needs us...

Or, sometimes, it begins because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.

Love comes quietly...
but you know when it is there, because, suddenly...
you are not alone anymore...
and there is no sadness inside you.

Love is a happy feeling that stays inside your heart for the rest of your life.