What does love mean to you? How would you define it?

i define it like a cup of hot chocolate on a cold morning.  

Love can be what we apply in our relationships.  And our earth relationships teach us love lessons.

Love can also be a spiritual experience that we are here to learn in the soul.  It is a deeper sense of all is right with the world than the love of another person.

Love is not an easy thing to "define", I mean its a feeling, one that gets confused sometimes with other things such as lust, but as George said its like that cup of hot chocolate on a cold morning, or the feeling of comfort; it is also that ache in the heart when your baby is sleeping in your arms; the tear that traces its way down the cheek as your child becomes a teenager, or starts kindergarten or high school, and you realize that your time with that "child" is not as long as you had hoped; or when your breath catches as you are driving and the trees are changing color, and it is so beautiful to see that you may have to pull over and just enjoy Mother Earth's fashion show; or the smell of spring right after a rain shower when it is washing away the gray of winter...it's the feeling that we are not alone that there is someone out there to take care of us as we take care of them...but is also...the gray hairs that seem to pop out everyday as we watch our children grow into adults and try new things (we hoped would never come)...the feeling that you would love to strangle them but you could NEVER live a day without them...and even "hate" is a form of intense emotion as you have to love someone before you can hate them, otherwise you would not care enough to feel that strongly.

Touching words from the mouth of babes.

What does Love mean?

A group of professional people posed this
question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, "What does
love mean?"

The answers they got were broader and deeper
than anyone could have imagined. See what you think:


"When my grandmother got arthritis, she
couldn't bend over and paint her toenails 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 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 sip before 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 (Wow!)

"If you want to learn to love better, you
should start with a friend who you hate,"
Nikka - age 6
(we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)

"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 an ybody . 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 Robert Redford."
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 you love somebody, your eyelashes go
up and down and little stars come out of you." (what
an image) Karen - age 7

"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet
and she doesn't think it's gross." Mark - age 6

"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

And the final one -- Author and lecturer Leo
Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked
to judge. The purpose of the contest
was to find the most caring child.
The winner was a four year old child whose
next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had
recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man
cry, the little boy went into the old
gentleman's yard, climbed onto his
lap, and just sat there. When his Mother
asked what he had said to the
neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing, I
just helped him cry"

When there is nothing left but God, that is
when you find out that God is all you need.