Spring has entered our lives again and with the tender buds on the trees and the daffodils opening their flowers I find my mind wandering into the past... remembering the delicious love of my adolescence. All those moments when my heart beat a bit faster just thinking about him, or when my face flushed as soon as I met eyes with him. I find myself lingering over the whispers of those moments my mind can still recall and relishing the sheer force he was in my life... good or bad he swept through me every time. I don't think either that it was as simple as it being the first time a boy had an affect on me or even that I wasn't as jaded as I may be now... there was something else, like the fabric of my being was literally affected by another person... I know now, as a slightly wiser version of the girl I was, that love is essential to a life that is full to the brim. I know, that love expands our capacity for every virtue man is capable of and allows us to be more; that love, makes what we are as a single separate human being a part of the life of another. It is through love we find our courage, and must face our fears. It challenges us just as much as it expands who we are making us grow and become even greater than we were even capable of in the beginning. It is through this growth and expansion that spring reminds us to love a little more, with a little more wisdom and a little less fear… Let your love for the other be a force in their lives, something that raises them up, comforts, and truly sees them. As the weather renews the Earth and everything that grows in it, let us renew our commitment to love boldly in this life, to love so that those we feel it for have no doubt where they stand… And may we in turn grow from this boldness, this fearlessness into something greater than we are.
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