This is a Five Minute Friday post based on one word – JUST (I added two more words to it). Set your timer for five minutes and create a meaningful blog post in that time. What a great concept! Try it!!!
Here goes:
Live with no regrets
When our daughter was in high school, she came home one day and said, “I want us to say ‘I love you’ every time we leave the house – just in case. It would probably be a good idea also to say it every night.”
Someone she knew had fought with her Mom before leaving for school. Her Mom never made it work because she was in a car accident. The regret was tangible.
It became our pattern to always say, 'I love you.' Over the years, we forgot that it was 'just in case' we never saw that person again. Then when my first husband, Bill, became so sick it took on an element of LIVING WITH NO REGRETS.Click To TweetFind your family’s love expression
We started with “I love you” before we left the house. This turned into also saying it at night except the other person would respond with “I love you more.” Then it became, “I love you to the moon and back.”
In the end, in one of the last conversations Bill had with the girls was to say, “I love you to Pluto and back.” One of the last love expressions – just in case. He moved to Heaven on September 12, 2012 – we have no regrets and love was fully expressed!
“But Dad, Pluto isn’t even a Planet,” was the reply.
“Yes, but it is the furthest away,” he replied.
Active Expressions of Love and Honor:
- Have a family meeting where you discuss the best love expressions and frequency of affirmation
- Practice them consistently so they become a pattern and habit
Please feel free to share your loving expressions in the comments below.
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Just lovely Karen! My mom and I used to say, “I love you more than you love me!” Then the other would answer, “no you don’t!” I love that you and I wrote “just” about the same for the prompt today! We should never put off telling others how we feel about them! Thanks for sharing, Cindy
Looking forward to reading your post. Thanks for this!
Oh Cindy, I love that way of thinking – never procrastinate telling someone how much you love them.
Karen
Ever since my kids were young we hugged and kissed them goodnight and say I love you. And even when someone leaves the house we hug and say I love you. We still do all of that with those who live here and others when they come to visit. We will always say I love you! Blessings to you, Karen! xo
I lovce that you always say I love you. Way to go!!!!
Reminds me of the movie the Other Sister and how they would mouth olive juice because it looks like I love you when you mouth it.
Now that is hilarious. I will have to try that. Thanks for stopping by.
No regrets. I love how this panned out in your life. I’m also working on living that life of no regrets, of taking each day as a precious gift from God.
Hulda,
It can be challenging at times and yet, in the long run, makes a huge difference. Each day is a precious gift!
Karen