Checklist of Love

Could there be enough purposes of love?
A safe place
A pillow you can rest your head on and know that there is nowhere like it in the world?
Dinner for two or three or four, it is all the same, enough love to fill the room?
Honor of each other's soul without taking away and then waiting to say your sorry?

Love is so different now, than it ever has been
Love now, is open and willing, in a way that defies the pressures we face
We have people available from anywhere that can pierce a relationship
Whether it be Internet or work or just plain out and out flirting
We have bills that are bigger than us
Debt in many cases
Children that are brought up in a generation of technology
And we weren't
We have more eating out
And less time at home
We have jobs that need many hours
And paychecks that are not enough, no matter how much money we make

With all of that Love is here
Within blended families
And single parenting
Within disabilities that are slight to our children
And providing them with balanced childhood's
With attachments and grows that may not come from the parents themselves

Love now, says with all of that we still want to be with, meet and share our lives
With that special someone
Someone who we can trust
That makes all of this worth it
To have more happy days
Than harsher ones
To go out together
And come home to rest
To look forward to seeing
And work towards future

Love is not about sex
Although it comes with it
But it comes with other things too
So it couldn't be about sex alone
Love is about hope
And dreams
And "worth it's" coating each day we share
And "trying" to step out of our comfort zones to see the others point of view
And "helping" when it is needed without a word that WE did anything

Love is not about a home
LOVE IS HOME
Love is the air you breath in your home
Love is the clean sheets
And the sound of the washer going

Love is the scents of food
And the tray of cookies that come out of the oven
Love is the ride to work
Or to the airport
Love is the walk around the block
And the talks that bring you closer
Love is the truth, the love, the purity
Of YOU in your foundation

Love is the bounce board of all your other interactions
Love is the fuel of your soul
That fuels everything else

Love isn't only with one person
It extends itself to your children in a way you never knew
It opens up the reasons to know and interact
It gives the purpose to us to take on new things
It gives the reasons to hold on to old things

Love is the balance of all we can think
The reason for all that we do
The purpose of why we do it
And the sustainer of all that we know

Love is grand and should never be put on the back burner
Anything left on a back burner will burn

Do a love check today
Do you love your days?
Are you happy within them?
Do you feel the love of others in your home?
Do you share your love with those you love?
Do you go to work thinking you make a difference?
Do you come home feeling you are coming home to love?
Are the issues that need to be taken care of in trust and love and purity?
Are your intentions to fill your heart, your home with love?
Do you look forward to home, Home being anywhere that you are?

Life is Valentines
Days are love
And moments are lived
That bring opportunities to feel love
As much as we look for it
It's creation is in our hands