Love is the larger word.  It can subsume sorrow, dispel indifference, envelope loneliness, shatter hate.  But it also settles frustration, loosens tension, softens intensity.  Love accepts, yet patiently invites change, asking us to shift in small and large ways so we can graciously, generously, courageously

Take someone’s hand. Link
Hearts, make connections, let love
Enlarge our living

Emma speaks love’s words with her cheek pressed close to mine, sometimes with her nose poking in my eye.  She does not pull away, does not allow me to stray from the conversation, persists until I let love reach me, relaxing into the contact – and then, let’s me return to my task but somehow… lightened.

© 2017 – Laurel Archer