If you ask a child, “What is Love?” They might come back to you with a simple definition like:

• Love is hugging me, even when I did something wrong.
• Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.
• Love is spending time reading an extra book to me, even though the chores are piling up.
• Love is giving daddy the best piece of chicken.

As a teenager, love can be defined as more individualistic and chemical.  You might here definitions such as:

• Love is a feeling where you feel like nothing can go wrong.
• Love is when your world is made up of one special person and without that person, you seem empty.
• Love is being there for someone.

However, when you become a parent you are introduced to the power of unconditional love and the danger of sacrifice as a parent.

Love is the force that gives Age Esteem its pizzazz! It may take on different dimensions as we experience different stages of life, but it remains a constant.

As we close out this month of love, let’s celebrate – Love of self, love of family, love of friends, love of those who we do not yet know and yes, even love for our enemies.

• Allow your heart to overflow with thoughts of love.
• Look for indications of love around you.
• Remember the precious moments in your life when you have had so much love in your heart that it bubbled over.

Celebrate love!