52 Ways to Joy - Share Your Love

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." ~ Oscar Wilde

While Valentine's Day is the day we set aside to celebrate love, it shouldn't be the only day we show affection for our loved ones.

One of the purest forms of joy anyone can experience is that feeling of being loved and giving love in return.

From parent to child. From friend to friend. From lover to lover. Nothing warms the heart and soul more than knowing love lives.

Too often, we take those feelings for granted - never showing how we feel or saying it out loud.

I love you.

Powerful words. They have the ability to take your breath away, to fill you with warmth and peace, and give you the confidence to move mountains.

Don't let the moment pass you by! Don't let a loved one leave without knowing how you feel about them. Corny? Silly? Think they know?

Think saying the words doesn't matter?

You're wrong. On all accounts. Love IS what makes the world go round, it makes everything worthwhile - all the struggles and all the triumphs. And it feels oh so good to share it!

This week (and I hope all year!) I hope we all remember to say the words and go out of our way to show those we love how we feel. (A heart shaped note in their lunch bag might be fun too!)

This week and always, I wish you love along the road you travel!

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Words to live by

Lately I've had a thing for sayings and have been looking for just the right words on signs to hang around the house. (Because I obviously can't get enough words on paper, I need to hang them around  the house too.)

I'm always on the lookout for inspiring phrases and sayings that resonate with my core values and sentiments that I hold dear in my world.

Of all the inspired words, nothing means more to me than my family and the friends that I hold close to my heart.

Yesterday, in a little store in Mystic Connecticut, I found this and I KNEW I had to have it. For me, these eight words say it all - there is nothing more important than the people in our lives. Some days, when the family is driving me crazy and I'm lost in my own little world, this is the phrase I need to remember. It's not the job or what's on TV that night or anything else - it's the family that matters the most.

And when it comes right down to the nitty-gritty, the most important things in life would also be a central theme to all the romances I write - because true love doesn't come in a little box wrapped up with a neat bow...instead it grabs your heart, makes your knees weak and even makes you say or do silly things.

Now, the most important man in my life will be charged with the task of finding the perfect place to hang my new words of wisdom.

How about you? Have a favorite saying that hangs in your house?