Love is a verb

Just a short one, because I should really be sleeping right now...

I was just thinking today about how much my 7 month old daughter loves me. It's a bit crazy to me, that a baby who doesn't have a clue what that word is or means, is better at SHOWING love than most adults I know. What a powerful thing, that even an infant can feel it and show it. SEEING her love firsthand just reaffirms that power for me.

Doctors would call it "separation anxiety." If you look it up you will see it referred to as a "problem" - this phase where an infant can't stand to be separated from his/her mother. While I'll admit, it's stressful *beyond words* to have a child who can only be soothed by YOU at night, who doesn't want daddy to read to her, who cries real tears when daddy tries to just take her to change her diaper in the next room. I am her everything right now, and I can't even have help from anyone when I get tired, sick, drained... not because I am too proud to ask for it or don't want it, but because *I* am the only one she will accept. But "problem" is not the word. It's LOVE, infant style. It is her expressing her love for me in the only small ways she can or knows how. She wants nothing more than to be in my arms or near me all day long. How humbling is that??

I'm undeserving of and extremely flattered, amazed, EXHAUSTED, and overwhelmed by the love shown by her. Even though she has no knowledge of that word - that's irrelevant; love is a VERB.