What is love?

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Most of us know that love is compassionate, gentle and forgiving. We realize the difference between love friends, siblings, and lovers. Love requires patience, it needs nurturing, and it's hard to keep from putting conditions on. I realized that there is an aspect of love I hadn't known before. I had to tell strangers about the loss of a loved one. People that I was led to believe the friend that had passed, knew well. I doesn't matter to me if she knew them or not. What does matter is it showed me that love is also being willing to reach out to strangers, at the risk of personal embarrassment, for the person you love. Being willing to look foolish. People complain about public displays of intimacy. Now, I agree, I really don't want to see people making out. But rarely do I even see people holding hands in public anymore. Here, there is still a great deal of racism. People gossip about you and look down on you for simply hugging someone of a different color. We have a great customer. He calls me Little Sis. He always hugs me when he comes into the shop. Even when we bump into one another at the store we hug one another. I am not ashamed. My husband loves to pick at me. There have been times that I rolled my eyes when we are in public and he acts silly. Shame on me. He is willing to act silly in front of complete strangers, to be himself. I won't roll my eyes again. Any time, in any way, we reach out to another showing love, we should be touched, not embarrassed or ashamed. We should embrace it, smile, be lifted by it. Accept love, don't shun it. I am greatly blessed. I have love and support from many. I am able to reciprocate. I am not diminished by looking silly. I am uplifted. I joyously accept your love into my heart and spirit and willingly lay my heart before you offering my love in return. Love is a gift, accept it, recieve it, share it and give it.