Love makes you vulnerable, and love makes you powerful.
Love is breathing in a baby.
Love is digging the poop out from underneath your fingernails when you change his diapers.
Love is promising your grandmother on her deathbed that you will fill her shoes when she goes.
Love puts you on your knees in prayer when your middle school student is sabotaging her life just as fast as she can.
Love is not beating the liver out of your dog when she eats your favorite shoes.
And a sprinkler system.
And the Internet cables.
Twice.
And one of your husband’s fly rods.
Love is reminding yourself that you will probably have another 40 years to hack out your crap with that husband of yours so you decide to just be patient…
…and then your heart drops through the floor because 40 years isn’t nearly long enough to be with him.
Love is hoping your LDS brothers and sisters are right about family being forever for all time and eternity.
Love is being grateful to your Creator for a thousand funny things.
But I can only speak for myself on this…
...how about you?
Daisy Rain Martin is an author, speaker, advocate, and educator as well as a founding member of The Flying M-Inklings Writing Group. She lives with her husband, Sean-Martin, in the beautiful state of Idaho and teaches English and Literature during the school year to the best 7th graders the world over. Daisy spends her summers writing, speaking, researching, creating, gardening, and canning.
Hope Givers: Hope is Here, is the sequel, of sorts, to her comedic, spiritual memoir, Juxtaposed: Finding Sanctuary on the Outside, which was her publisher's (Christopher Matthews) #1 top selling book in 2012. She has also written a free e-book for anyone who has or is currently being sexually abused called, If It’s Happened to You, which appears in its entirety in Hope Givers. Please follow her weekly blog, SATURDAISIES, which addresses a plethora of current issues including child advocacy, all things hilarious, and matters of the heart. She would love for you to join the Rainy Dais Community by friending her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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