It Only Takes One Person

Isn't it amazing how it only takes one person to make you feel loved-- or unloved.  Love isn't a single emotion. In fact, I think that's why we are drawn to it. Love is an webbed entanglement of our limbic system and cortex.  Whether romantic or platonic love, the deeper it grows, the more we rely upon it as a living thing. We crave to feed off of it. Hence, the few we love deeply hold our lives in our hands. Without their love we starve. We must then be sure to show our love daily. How are we to know if we are that one to someone? Often when stresses in life come, we let it get in the way of those who are most important to us. We assume that they know we love them.  Shame! If you have ever felt the longing for love in your own life, you know that it can't be assumed.  "They do not love that do not show their love." President Monson promises that we will never regret kind words spoken, or affection shown, but warns that regrets will come by omitting them in the relationships we treasure most. So be a lover, not a hater, fighter, or stresser! Shower the people you love with love, show and tell them the way that you feel. Yet even as we share our love, what guarantee is there that we will be loved? Life would be all to fragile if we had to rely on others for life. Thankfully there is one whose love quickens us all. He is our Savior. This is the love that our eyes should be single to. As he becomes our focus, our body will be filled with his light, and we can share that with all of our loved ones. Sharing his love for them enlivens and deepens our own love.