The Love Letter (this can truly help fill her love bucket)

For those who love…

The Love Letter

It has only been a day, an hour, a moment, since I last told you that I love you… but are these three words enough?

Do you know that I love loving you? And when I say the words “I love you” …do you know why and how much?

I love you for what I have become beside you and because of you… I love you for loving me as I am, as I have been, and as I wish to be. It is through your eyes that I have seen little glimpses of myself—glimpses of someone who is changing all the time yet always complete and valued as I am… Yes, through your eyes—your beautiful, loving eyes—I have witnessed my own perfection… and yours.

I love you because you trust me enough to show me all of who you are—and within that trust I have found safety in being all of who I am for you. I love you because in my worst moments, you see not the lesser part of me, but the whole of me; and in that wholeness my heart is touched and my soul is soothed by your tenderness, your kindness… your extraordinary love and devotion.

You have loved me whether I was sitting or standing or falling or flying… and as you have loved me, I have learned to love myself—to honor the person that you honor; to trust the person that you trust; and to see the goodness that you see… in me.

I love you because you have allowed me to discover myself, and you, in my own time and in my own way. I love you, because beside you I feel free—and with that freedom, I have chosen greatness over smallness… and I have become more.

Every day that I have loved you, you have found value in whatever my heart is capable of expressing… No matter how awkward or obscure my feelings may appear—time after time, you’ve found the value and the truth in those feelings… and in me… and in “us.” Always in a new way—always on a higher level—you have shown me that “together” is the most precious way to travel; and every step I take with you I find myself rising further… into love.

You are so much more than my companion, my lover, my best friend… you are my starlight, my sunlight—you are the golden flame of my heart and the bonfire of my soul. Your love surrounds me, astounds me, lifts me into an edgeless sky and carries me to places that I have never been—and with every breath I take, I breathe in the warmth and the love and the light… of you.

I have watched you sleeping and prayed that you would awaken, still beside me, softly calling my name… I have reached for you in the night, knowing that yours is the only hand that fits perfectly with mine… And more than once, I have died in your arms and I have come alive again in those arms—arms that I love, because they are yours—arms that are strong and gentle… and true.

Yes, I love you for what I have become beside you, for what I have become because of you… and for what I have become with you. In loving you I have learned to love higher, further, deeper than I have ever loved before; and from that love has emerged a path that is perfect—perfect, because I am walking it with you.
Thank you, my love… Thank you for being all of who you are for me. It is an honor to love and be loved by you. As I love you now, I will love you always. And as we walk together through this world and into the mists of eternity, it is I who will wrap my arms around you—and, forever beside you… it is I who will whisper your name.

—Heather K. O’Hara, Copyright © 2010 – All rights reserved. Posted with permission by Sherrie Rose, The Love Linguist

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