One of my personal bests by award-winning singer, Sandi Patti, is Love In Any Language. What is the language of love?
The language of love speaks through your five basic senses of hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and touching.
- Love is the melody of music floating to your ears through expressions of I love you or I miss you or How was your day.
- Love is the special thing you do every day – a smile, running an errand for your spouse, folding the laundry, or helping to change the oil in the car.
- Love is your spouse’s lingering scent on his pillow or the smell of his shirt left laying on the bed, the aroma of chocolate cake baking or the morning coffee brewing , a whiff of autumn’s crisp air or the clean woodsy fragrance of pine.
- Love is the bite of a luscious, juicy peach or the creamy goodies of a bowl of vanilla bean ice cream.
- Love is the tenderness of a kiss on your cheek or a stroke across your arm or a gentle squeeze of your hand.
Clearly, this is my definition of what love is. Yours will be similar, but yet uniquely different as it should be.
Some of my favorite verses in the Bible speak of love. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails…”
Love spawn intimacy, commitment, and passion as a friend or a lover. A few weeks ago, I wrote I Call You Friend which points out key elements to look for in a friend. These same characteristics can apply to both a friend and soul mate.
How is it, we can be different, yet our hearts know the language of love? It’s universal, it’s unspoken, it’s understood just like Sandi Patty’s song goes…
Love in any language
Straight from the heart
Pulls us all together
Never apart
And once we learn to speak it
All the world will hear
Love in any language
Fluently spoken here