Finish the sentence: "I love it when...."

[wil]

I love it when I see in love take the time to remember birthdays...

My mom is known for that, all my cousins and all their kids look forward to the birthday note from Aunt Janet...

what an wonderful thing to do...

[Muslimwoman]

I love it when I am just getting on with my day and I hear the mosques call to prayer - 5 times a day it reminds me why we are here.

[Sunny C.]

I love it when I get off work Friday. I feel like Fred Flintstone sliding down the back of that dinosaur. Yabba dabba dooooooooo!

Sunny

[Tao_Equus]

I love having breakfast in bed with my love on a saturday morning

[InLove]

I love it when something that seems like a setback turns out to have a set of new blessings all its own!

I have for most of this life always been blessed with a strong body. But over the past two years, because of illness and the treatments for that illness, I have been walking with a cane and most recently come to find myself in need of a wheelchair. I put it off as long as I could—I just couldn’t seem to accept it. But eventually situations like this demand action, whether or not we feel ready. At first I was sad, and then I was mad! After all, I was losing a fair amount of the freedom I had always known. What I did not know at the time was that a different kind of freedom was about to be mine.

It all started when I found out that wheelchairs and all that goes with them are expensive! I did not know how I was going to manage the financial aspect. I asked doctors and social workers and discount medical supply reps, but there was no aid available for me. Looking back now, I know that the answer was in the back of my mind all along. I had to discover the freedom that comes with admitting that one needs help and giving people a chance to do just that. Reluctantly, I composed an email and sent it out to the people on my church list. I asked if anyone had a wheelchair that no one was using, and if I might borrow or rent or even buy it from them. Within the hour, I had five different responses, all offering me free wheelchairs! Now I have a lightweight manual model as well as an automatic—and a ramp for getting the heavier one in and out of the bed of our pickup! Wheelchair races, anyone?

So my visits to the doctor are a lot easier these days. But I noticed another freedom that has come my way. I now meet a different set of faces that I couldn’t really see before—people in wheelchairs! I thought I would be feeling lost and lonely, not looking into people’s eyes like I always have. But the best thing that has happened? Babies. When I pass children in their strollers, our gaze meets. There is just a connection that was not there before. It seems like they almost always smile! Here is this “big person” rolling along just like them, and I wonder if they even wonder why? Anyway, that is the best part of being in a wheelchair. It is a perspective I could not have discovered if I still had the “freedom” of rushing around on two legs, usually seeing only the shade that covered these sweet faces. Learning to use a wheelchair definitely involves using a whole different set of muscles than I am used to, and it can be painful, but I think it is the “smile” muscles that I have exercised more than any other. And that doesn’t hurt one bit.

InPeace,
InLove

[Quahom1]

Indeed...

[Vajradhara]

i love it when you've been away from someplace for along time and, upon returning, it feels as if you've never left.

metta,

~v

[China Cat Sunflower]

I love how the desert smells after it rains.

Chris

[lunamoth]

I love it when I log on and see posts from dear friends, old and new, near and far. Lovely post InLove, good to see you Vaj, Q, Chris.

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

...I open my e-mail box and see a new e-mail from someone I'm concerned about or someone I had just started corresponding with off-boards (I received an e-mail from IL and I received one from a Greek gentleman I know on a different board I belong to.)

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

... I can let IL know how much a "receipt" of hers was enjoyed (and that I was able to try the end-product, too.)

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[InLove]

I love it when I am trying to find the positive amidst so much negativity in the world, and that balance is restored for a moment through the comments of people I have come to love and respect. Thank you, my friends.

And I love it when I find out that even though this physical affliction I live with right now has not reversed, it has stabilized. That is very good news to me, especially when I have been seriously questioning the wisdom of continuing certain treatments.

And I love it when I have a pain-free morning! I cannot even remember the last time this happened. I walked upright and bent to pull the weeds from my rock gardens and painted spirals and birds and snakes and things on plant containers and made lunch. And treasured every second of it.

And I love it when I can call up Dad and tell him how much better I felt today. I love to ease his mind.

And I love it when my "Shadow Nightstalker" (meow) gets in the way of my message writing to play with the cursor. Guess that's my cue to wind it up here!

InPeace,
InLove

[Muslimwoman]

I love it that I had the opportunity to 'meet' someone as special as InLove.

This is my favourite InLove thread, as it takes someone so special as she to remind us to be thankful for the things we love.

Rest in peace my beloved sister. Alfa Salaam.

[wil]

I love it when tears flow and it doesn't bother me.

I love the joy of memories, and the feeling of oneness.

[path_of_one]

I love the feeling that one day, I will get to reunite with all that I loved, even those I never met face to face in this life.

I love this thread; when I have trouble with gratefulness, I read it and it reminds me of all the many, many gifts we have in life...