I Love You

For the first time ever, my son who doesn't say much of anything, who has been diagnosed with a speech disorder, told me that he loved me.  I heard the words "oove you mom".  My heart melted and I crawled into bed next to my red-haired batman and cried.  I have been waiting for so long to hear my son say those words to me, and they came when I needed them the most.

 I had spent the day crying hysterically because my husband is taking a trip to Salt Lake to attend a funeral.  I know that so many of you are used to your spouse’s going on trips, but I am not and I can't like it!  I have to drive him and his mother to the airport...this is unacceptable for me.  He wanted me to come and bring the boy, but I just haven't got enough strength built up yet to withstand another funeral.  So I cried, and cried, and cried some more...like women are apt to do.  I cried myself right into a migraine...and while putting my son to bed as I normally do, after I tell him that I love him...I turn to go and I hear those simple words that I have longed to hear for so long.  My migraine didn't go away, my husband is still going, but my little boy said "oove you mom".

This simple phrase has the power to change lives, knit families together, and fill mommy’s hearts.  That day it had the power to pull me out of my pit of darkness and back into the light in seconds.  If only we could all see the value that this simple phrase has.  How 3 simple words can mean so much as to pull a person back from the brink of hell.  It is a stream of light in a dark world, and why do we not give it freely?  Why must we bury it in the ground as the servant who was given only 1 talent did?  When we pull it out it hasn't grown, it hasn't multiplied magically, and we cannot approach our Lord and say I have given freely the love you gave to me and it grew so large that my very being was enveloped in your very essence.  Just as money and gifts must be used to become greater, so it is with love...and it is so easy to give, as it takes nothing from you to give it to another, and giving it makes you stronger.

Everyone’s life is filled with trials, and troubles, and dark places.  We all need help at times, and having been in circumstances where all another person can do for you is give you love; I can say for certain that love saves lives.  Love, support, and kindness can truly mean the difference between life and death.

 Here's to I love you's, may we use them more freely than we do.  May we all end up with more love than we know what to do with.  May we espouse the hymn:

 "Savior, may I love my brother, as I know thou lovest me, Find in thee my strength, my beacon, for thy servant I would be.  Savior may I love my brother, Lord, I would follow thee."