“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Being appreciative for what is, as it is, can bring you into alignment for feeling so much gratitude. There is a gift in accepting all the parts of another person or a situation. If we can practice letting go of the want to change something or someone in order to express love, we can also experience expansion. True love comes without condition. I love you if you do it this way, because you are like that, and when you do this are all conditions; love is not contingent upon expectation or want.
Love is ready to flow through and from you without any stipulations. The return of being a gateway for this can bring joy that fills you up and overflows into the space you occupy. When you open up to love, it is always there waiting for you – as you are – and ready to be shared with others.

Photograph by Deb Strother – Santa Fe, NM