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Opportunities to Love
Do we jump at the challenge?
Every single day is a gift because each day offers us countless opportunities to love. That fact alone is enough reason to jump up out of bed each morning in eager anticipation of meeting all those opportunities with all the love we can muster.
Greeting a new day as though it is a profound gift of opportunities is, by far, the best way to get up in the morning. I wish I got up each morning that way. Over the course of a long life I have arisen this way many times but it is by no means a daily thing. I’m still working on that.
I have learned that those opportunities to love come in all sizes. There are those small opportunities that present themselves every time we come into contact with another human. Depending on how many humans we come into contact with on a given day, that can be a lot of opportunities.
Then there are those big opportunities that repeatedly present themselves day after day. I am talking about those opportunities to love our friends, our family, our spouses, our children….
Perhaps the biggest opportunity to love that ever presented itself to me in my life came after I became a father and chose with all my heart to become a full-time stay-at-home mother for five years of my life. My daughter presented that opportunity and during those years…
