Love is simple and easy, or rather that is the way it seems. Love is actually very complicated. Like a delicate flowering plant, love requires special actions and attentions to keep it alive and even better to help it grow.

All plants need water, light and food to survive. While three ingredients would seemingly make an easy recipe to help a plant survive, too much or too little of any one can kill a plant. To help a plant flower and grow requires even more care. There are many summers when the Texas fields that are normally covered in Bluebonnets are mostly barren of the State Flower.

Yet the soil feeds the plants. You can tell from the green grass around that there has been rain, and there is almost always sun in Tejas. So what else makes the Bluebonnets grow and flower?

Texas Bluebonnets

It is a special combination of the elements that makes them fill the fields full of blue splendor.  In this same manner love that nourishes the soul requires a special blend of elements. Yet we very often leave out certain ingredients never mind taking the time to blending them.

Love requires more than just the words “I love you.” While words help, actions that express the feeling are necessary for the words to mean anything. Love also requires nurturing and attention, continual actions and words to keep it alive. Doing one or two things then leaving love alone won’t promote the long-term growth of love. So actions, words and attention help love to grow, but what really brings it home is sharing love.

Plants have seeds that spread and create more plants. Learning to love yourself creates seeds, while sharing that love with others spreads those seeds of love. While not all the seeds may germinate, there will be some that grow and spread more love… and that is why this blog is here.

Love,
MJ Schrader

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