This morning’s time is short due to business travel and time to express morning gratitude is limited.  Sometimes meaning can be lost in a quantity of words and better understood when less is stated.  In that spirit today’s offering is short and clear in its meaning.   
 
I am grateful for the love I have known with a woman in the past and for my heart that maintains its hope to love again.  Given the chance, I will come closer to getting love right next time.  I am certain of that.  Much of what Susan Polis Schutz has written harmonizes with my heart and puts a glow of hope into my soul.  Here’s a favorite: 

“I Love You”

I can not promise you that
I will not change
I can not promise you that
I will not have many different moods
I cannot promise you that
I will not hurt your feelings sometimes
I can not promise you that
I will not be erratic
I can not promise you that
I will always be strong
I can not promise you that
my faults will not show
But –
I do promise you that
I will always be supportive of you
I do promise you that
I will share all my thoughts
and feelings with you
I do promise you that
I will give you freedom to be yourself
I do promise you that
I will understand everything that you do
I do promise you that
I will be completely honest with you
I do promise you that
I will laugh and cry with you
I do promise you that
I will help you achieve all your goals
But – most of all
I do promise you that I love you. 

Today my gratitude is for the simple chance of love visiting my heart again; a woman to love who loves me in equal measure.

Hope is mine! 

I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.  Javan

Susan Polis Schutz is a documentary film producer and director and an American poet. She was associated with the start-up of bluemountain.com, one of the very first on-line greeting card sites (now owned by American Greeting). She is also the mother of U.S. Congressman Jared Polis of Colorado.