Since Valentines Day is just around the corner I thought there would be no more fitting of a topic than, you know it, LOVE. So many different thoughts, expressions, feelings, and actions accompany this small, yet incredibly important word. Who would have known that 4 small letters could impact the course of someone's life for better or for worse, and have a profound affect on the way we feel about ourselves and others. I thought that you might enjoy reading kids' thoughts about love...some are funny, while others really hit the nail on the head in their observations. Enjoy!
Actual Children answers to the question “What is Love”. Love according to Kids.
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different.You just know that your name is safe in their mouth. Billy – age 4
“Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.” Karl – age 5
“Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.” Chrissy – age 6
“Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.”Terri – age 4 “Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sipbefore giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.” Danny – age 7
“Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more.My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss” Emily – age 8
“Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” Bobby – age 7
“If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,” Nikka – age 6
“Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.” Noelle – age 7
“Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still> friends even after they know each other so well.” Tommy – age 6
“During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.He was the only one doing that. I wasn’t scared anymore.”Cindy – age 8
“My mommy loves me more than anybody.You don’t see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.”Clare – age 6
“Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.”Elaine-age 5
“Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Brad Pitt.”Chris – age 7
“Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.”Mary Ann – age 4
“I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.” Lauren – age 4
“When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint hertoenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.”Rebecca- age 8
“When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.” (what an image)Karen – age 7
“You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.” Jessica – age 8
"We love because he first loved us." 1John 4:19 Most of all God loves us, and because of that love we have learned to love others. I know most of us also desire to be loved and cherished by another human during this time on earth, and when we find that, in God's time, it truly is a blessing to be guarded and nurtured. I know that I do not always succeed at treating this blessing with the importance that it deserves, and many others can also abuse this gift and thus we become somewhat fearful of it, but it truly is a word with immense meaning behind it. Because of the impact that love has in another person's life, and our own, how important it is to learn how to love from the one who has created it. God's love is perfect, and it casts out all fear, and loves even when we feel undeserving of it. God's love loves everyone at all times. God's perfect love is patient, kind, gentle, and the list goes on. I know that when I spend more time loving God, it spills over into my everyday life. I want to love others more, and what a better place to learn, than from the perfect all loving, God.
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