Love
Love.
It just isn’t the one big thing.
That giant gift with the fat price tag doesn’t earn you a free pass.
I can’t buy my children a really cool game for the Wii one Saturday night and then not speak to them all week.
And when they wonder where dinner is on Tuesday evening I just point to the Wii game.
That’s ludicrous.
I can’t read Piper six chapters of a novel when she’s four and then never pick up another book until she’s eight.
“What? Another reading of ‘Guess How Much I love You?’ Nah. I read you six chapters last year.”
That’s crazy talk.
I’m learning that love is smaller than it is bigger.
It’s more mundane than magnificent.
It’s the tuck-ins and the repeated hugs and the placing of band-aids on barely visible scratches.
It’s the phone calls during the day for no reason and the hand-holding and the warm dinners on rainy days.
Love is what adds up over the course of a lifetime.
Love is your husband attending a Norwex party on a sacred Date Night without a single word of complaint.
It’s building a bird house with a six-year-old on a windy Saturday afternoon.
Love is standing in the yard laughing with your eight-year-old until you both fall down together in the grass.
It’s going out in the dark to look for a lost pair of shoes.
Love is beautiful.
And hard.
And it’s simple and it’s full of sacrifice.
It moves us beyond ourselves and it is pleased to serve.
And I am humbled every time I see it happen in our house.
6 Comments
Donna Thomas
I love this Lacey. It reminds me of all the moments spent doing the little things with my daughters that only required my presence and time , and knowing how truly blessed I am to have had every one of them.
laceykeigley
absolutely blessed.
joanna
beautiful. and true. what a challenge it is for me to see this in my days. to see the little adding up to the mighty. thank you for sharing this.
Margie Mason
RT @SoEveryDay: Love http://t.co/iHln1Adm Thanks Lacey! And just like that, my headache is gone. What an encourager!
margie
Teach ME!! I wish you would quit challenging me too….LOVE. THANK YOU!
Rachel
Totally unrelated to this post, but I don't Tweet.
My husband works with a guy who was on AFV. They were in the top three and won a bunch of money, but didn't get to go on to the grand finale show.
So now you know someone who knows someone 🙂