Love

Since today is both Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent) lots of people are thinking about love today.

My college psychology professor taught us this definition of love: “When the happiness and well-being of another is essential to one’s own happiness and well-being a state of love exists.”

On Valentine’s Day romantic love gets lots of publicity, but Valentine became a saint because of his love for people shown by acts of kindness.

For a marriage to be happy and lasting people need both kinds of love, but the whole world needs the other kind.

As the old song says, “What the word needs now is love, sweet love.”

I hope we can all do a better job of loving each other from now on.