I've been thinking a lot about what a gift it is when someone allows us to love them.

The joy of love, really, is not that someone loves you back
because that's not what love is.
Loving someone doesn't mean loving them so that you can be loved.
It's loving because you will to love.

When someone allows you to know them and to love them, your whole world can change.

Your heart can grow exponentially
by the moment.

When you can love someone,
and love their dreams,
and love their life,
just to love them,
with no expectation or need from them,
it can bring your search to rest.

Because it isn’t their love that heals you.

It is your love.

It is the love you experience coming from you

that heals.

It can offer an answer to your prayer.

It can take a heart

from wounded

to whole.