"When I was a little boy, we children traded paper hearts at school on Valentine’s Day. At night we dropped them at the doors of our friends, stamping on the porch and then running in the dark to hide.
Almost without exception those valentines had printed on their face, “I love you.” I have since come to know that love is more than a paper heart. Love is of the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is more than the end of the rainbow. Love is at the beginning also, and from it springs the beauty that arches across the sky on a stormy day. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shining through death. How rich are those who enjoy it in their associations with family, friends, church, and neighbors.
I am one who believes that love, like faith, is a gift of God."
-Gordon B. Hinckley
President Hinckley is awesome. I love everything he wrote and spoke. These words that you chose of his on love are the most beautiful and true words that I have ever read. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI especially like the first paragraph, because it brought back memories. I did the very same thing when I was a young child in the 1940s. It was so much fun. So sad that the world is too unsafe now to do this. So much has been lost for children.
Ann Best, Author of In the Mirror & Other Memoirs