All We Need is Love

While driving home this evening there was a Beatles song or at least it's title running through my head. I kept hearing "All you need is love, love - all you need is love". As I couldn't get this refrain out of my head, I figured I was supposed to think about it. So I did.
I realized how lucky I have been to have felt truly loved my entire life. I know it sounds sappy, but it is true. I knew my parents loved me, my grandparents adored me, my brothers and sister - we have always loved each other - even when we didn't really understand each other, I have been with my husband for over forty years and we have never doubted our love for each other, my children, my grandchildren, aunts, uncles, cousins. How lucky I have been to be a part of such wonderful relationships. Remembering, that nothing is perfect - it can still be pretty darn good. I thought about what it would be like not to have these people in my life, and it made me very sad.
Then I thought how important love is in the development of a child. It is the Miracle Grow in the soil of life. When a child knows others value them they value themselves and can accomplish almost anything.
So, in the words of the two great prophets, Bill and Ted (from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure). Be good to one another.
My kids quote Einstein and Lawrence - I quote Bill and Ted.