Amazing Women, Amazing Love



A dear friend of mine recently lost her grandmother. I understood her pain, having lost two amazing women not that long ago. All three of our grandmothers were amazing women. Absolutley amazing. One was from Oklahoma and had astonishing sewing capability. One was born in Ohio and joined the US Marines at the age of 18. One was a small town Indiana girl who became a mother of 5.

As I cried for my friend, and the pain I knew she was feeling, I was trying to decipher what is it exactly, that makes a woman amazing….Whatever it is, they all three possessed it without a shadow of a doubt. Sociologically speaking, these women were from various backgrounds, had differing traditions, and different ideals and views. How could these women be so different, yet so wonderfully amazing?

Then it hit me.

It wasn’t in something they possessed. It was in everything they did.

It was the way they made you feel about yourself that made these women so special. It was that they loved so fully, so completely, that in their presence you were the only thing that mattered. Time stood still, whatever you needed or wanted you were provided with, all for the sake of showering you with their love and adoration for the little soul you were born, the child you grew to and the adult you had or would become. It was the way they lit up when you walked in the room. It was the way they really did care how your day was or how you were. It was the genuine, unconditional love that they poured into everything they did for you.

I don’t believe for a minute that these humble women thought of themselves as amazing. I don’t believe they thought they had left some great mark on humanity, nor did they probably ever believe they themselves were capable of such a feat.

But what I do believe, is that being amazing doesn’t mean that you climbed some mountain or cured a disease or won some award….Instead, being amazing means you made someone feel as if all there was and all there would ever was within them. Being amazing means taking the time to see what matters to someone, and trying to understand it, even if you didn’t agree. It means that you accept them, and that you see beauty in their flaws. It means that you protect them from what you can, and lift them up from whatever knocks them down when you can’t shield them. It means focusing your energy on allowing someone else to see how perfect they are in your eyes. It means never expecting more than they are willing to give, while giving your all to them. It means opening your heart.

Being amazing means teaching someone to love…fully, courageously, deeply, and with the realization that they will never forget how you made them feel.

Who are you amazing to?