He talked about how another classmate showed Brave Love when he told some kids to stop kicking down their snow fort. He talked about how a classmate showed Brave Love when she agreed to go last in the game they were playing at recess.

Jackson told me about how he showed Brave Love when he stood up for a friend who was being picked on a few weeks ago.

We talked about how love isn’t just flowers and hearts and fuzzy feelings, about how Brave Love is doing the right thing even when it’s really, really hard. We talked about how Brave Love is forgiveness and second chances. We talked about how Brave Love is tough and scary sometimes and how sometimes Brave Love isn’t so much about love for a person as it is love for humanity as a whole. My seven-year-old son Jackson said that Brave Love means standing up for others. I asked my boys what Brave Love is and how we see it in action. One of the things that we talked about was Brave Love (an activity from February 2 – I told you were are a little behind). So this morning, we pulled out the activity calendar and set out to making up for some lost time. We have fallen behind, but we are still trying. Our journal is filled with many blank pages of good intentions. Our ambitious expectations have been thwarted by dinner preparations and laundry and homework and basketball practice. I had high hopes this year of completing the Thirty Days of Love activity calendar with my kids, filling our journal with words, our minds with thoughts, and our hearts with love.īut, alas, we have fallen behind.

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