The slipping of your hand into another. The soft laugh. A gentle embrace. And it is not just the touch, but just as strong is the feeling that you know you are loved. You know the love you can recall right now, even though the person who gave it to you, showered it on you, shared their love with you is no longer here.
And so the love will be remembered always as that most special of things that time and distance do little to reduce. How might it be that the love you share with someone today or tomorrow might have resonance with them still some ten, twenty, thirty years from now?
It does not have to be earth shattering to be special, it simply has to be real and honest and openly shared and truly meant. This is plenty. Look at your own chances to express love with those you meet today or during the week that is ahead and remember - when you want to - to express your love with those you choose to. It might be a special thank you or a meeting of the eyes, a touch on a shoulder, a warm embrace or a deep hug. All of these are important if freely given and naturally shared.
Earlier this evening I was talking with my youngest son as he got ready for bed. We were chatting about my Grandad Tom and how much he had loved me when I was a little boy. All of a sudden, in the middle of telling my own youngest son about this time from my childhood, I felt myself overwhelmed by the love of my grandfather reaching out into the present to wrap me in his strong arms and remind me that I am still loved by him and am still his own little grandson to him so many years after he passed away. He was tangibly in the room with us for those minutes, being with his great grandson through my sharing. Forty years from today that moment will still belong to Johnny and the love will be remembered from a grandpa he never knew but who he now knows through his father.
Love is a legacy in that it is not bound by time and space as so many physical things are. Love can be an act, a feeling, a metaphor, a message for someone you reach out to. It is best when not structured or controlled. It needs no boundaries imposed upon it, not will it respect measurement of it.
Simply let your love show. Allow it the space to be of you and from you. It will make all the difference in the world to someone who receives it. You will be able to know that you did the right thing simply because you gave your love.