by Melissa Brown

Created on: August 15, 2010

I just feel loved, more now than ever in my life.  I find no other words for it for now.   How much time do we, as individuals, spend wondering if we are loved, or even liked?  I can tell you right now, we waste way too much time on this.  Look around you.  How many people do you recognize as someone who loves and is loved?  We  they all are loved by someone.  It's just that I feel so loved right now.

I go out in the back yard every morning, to see just what’s opening up to me.  It reminds me that there is beauty, love and unity in our world.  Too often we see the destructive side of life in the news, and it tells me otherwise.  I choose to see what’s worth living for.   There is a positive for every negative that we see, know and feel.

At this juncture in my life, I can see, know and feel choices.  We can go wherever we want, and live the way we want to live.  Nothing in this life is anything I haven’t invited into my life…..including the misery.  If we choose to feel misery, we will.  After all, if we don’t know misery, how are we supposed to know joy?  We choose to feel joy.  And, how else are to know misery?

My children are a joy to me, just knowing how special each of my two daughters are.  Opposite as night and day, they are on their own paths, and giving so much of themselves to what makes the world go around.  I have a special and individual relationship with each of my grandchildren.  I cherish the moments I get to spend with them.

My siblings…and there are many, are also contributing to their lives, as well as the lives of others for the good in this life.  I see beautiful art work, and beautiful children, and beautiful words coming from each of them; and I feel loved.

All I’m saying is that we have choices to feel love or  misery. 

A dear friend of mine made the statement that “No one would ever want either of us! We’re so weird.”   She was referring to herself and her husband, and I started to challenge that, because I was thinking the very same thing about “us”.  “No one would want either of us. We’re so danged different.”  

I suggest that when each of us has found our mates, soul mates; they are the love of our lives.  No one else will do; and that’s the truth.  If there is anyone who thinks they would want either one of us, they would be sorely disappointed in their choice.  They would not see the wonderful things we see in each other.  It’s not because we disapprove of anything the other has to offer, but because we so totally accept exactly who the other one is.  That’s the one I want.

I feel so loved.

Just to know that is very important.  It sometimes takes a lifetime to understand and know this about another person.  Many of us do, finally, and sometimes, that’s just what it takes …. just time.  We are so fortunate to live long enough to know this.

I feel so loved.

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