The Power of Love In Helping Us To Improve Our Lives

These poems are about the power of love in changing our lives for the better by encouraging us to follow our hearts and dreams in guiding us to find our unique destiny. Love also enables us to reach our full human potential by cultivating compassion for all the living beings on our great planet thus expanding our consciousness and appreciating the true miracle that all life is.

Today I Say A Prayer For The Gift of Love

Today, I see a lovely flower
and look at it as if for the first time.
I see how beautiful is my child
and thank God for the most precious gift
which he has given me.
I look at her soft, radiant eyes and
her sweet little face;
I feel her little body wrapped in my arms…
so grateful to have her to love and to hold.
Let me realize just how valuable is today…
to explore my talents,
no matter how they may be judged;
free me from restraint to tell those that I love,
to fully experience the breadth
of my humanity…
not to cower in a corner-
always afraid to reach out
or speak what I believe to be true.
Awaken my spirituality,
let me experience what it is like
to stand on a mountain top-
filled with a moment of eternity,
to feel part of what was before…
now… and will be.
Let something of me remain after I’m gone-
to reveal that I lived and had something to say.
Give me insight to see before I act
so as not to cause another pain or injury.
Let me have empathy for all sentient beings…
to realize there’s a sanctity about all life,
and let not money or power corrupt my soul…
help me today to stop excusing my limitations
by accepting the challenge to
change and become a better person.

~ Lora Hollings

“I Choose Love”
~ Shawn Gallaway

This is a video which shows how we can choose to live our lives with love and create a more peaceful world uniting us all as one people who can tackle important challenges of the future such as climate change, saving our wildlife, and our planet. We have the choice to create a brighter tomorrow for our children and future generations- a world where there’s no place for hatred or violence toward any living being. A world where we all learn to respect each other for the special gifts that we have and where all people have a chance to contribute these gifts and lead rewarding lives.

To Feel The Miracle of Love

Surely This Must Be Heaven

Surely this must be heaven…
when I can look up into the treetops
and see the light rays streaming
through gently swaying leaves.
Surely this must be heaven…
when you hold me in your arms
with such tenderness,
and I hear the beating of your heart
so close to mine.
Surely this must be heaven…
when my little dog
with his calming presence
helps to relieve the burden of my worries
and loves me so devotedly.
Surely this must be heaven,
when I feel my child
in the grasp of an embrace…
and I thank God
for the precious gift of life-
to feel the miracle of love.

~ Lora Hollings

Let’s be Friends –
Dolphin and Dog Become True Friends

Animals also show an amazing capacity to form deep bonds of affection with each other even with members from another species enriching their lives as well. We see in this video of a true friendship between a dolphin and a dog that these animals’ affection for each other not only parallels our own but that they have the capacity for empathy or the ability to understand and share the feelings of others too. Thus we cannot limit the capacity to feel love only to human beings.

Cute Cat Befriends Dolphins –
We Don’t Have To Be Alike to Be Friends

Cat befriends dolphins in this charming video which shows that animals, once again, can develop bonds of friendship with each other even crossing the boundaries between species. Maybe animals can teach us to be more tolerant of our differences, and instead connect with others on a deeper, more spiritual level.

Live your Life With Love and Treasure the Beauty of the Moment

Quotes About Life and Love

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
-Elbert Hubbard

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”
-Siddhartha Buddha

Love does not dominate. It cultivates.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.”-Randall G. Leighton

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
-Ashley Smith

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”
-James Dean

“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”
-Flora Whittemore

“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
-Oscar Wilde

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
-Maria Robinson

Looking back, I have this to regret: that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
-David Grayson

Love does not dominate. It cultivates.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all life’s hazards, save one: neglect.
-James Bryden

Insights About These Poems

These two poems reveal a deeply grounded spirituality that is not found in abstraction, but in presence, love, and conscious living. Rather than seeking heaven or holiness as distant ideals, the poems suggest that sacredness exists in ordinary moments—when attention, gratitude, and empathy are fully engaged.

Today I Say a Prayer for the Gift of Love is an inward-looking invocation, a moral and spiritual reckoning. It recognizes love as both a gift and a responsibility. The speaker asks not only to feel gratitude for a child, but to live more truthfully, courageously, and compassionately. There is a call to self-awareness: to act with foresight, to avoid causing harm, to resist corruption by power or fear, and to grow beyond self-imposed limitations. Love here becomes transformative—it demands integrity, empathy for all life, and a willingness to leave something meaningful behind.

Surely This Must Be Heaven offers the lived fulfillment of that prayer. Heaven is not elsewhere; it is found in sensory and emotional immediacy—sunlight through leaves, a tender embrace, the quiet devotion of a dog, the warmth of a child held close. These moments affirm that love is the miracle itself, not a reward deferred.

Together, the poems suggest that heaven is created through awareness and care. When we slow down, cherish connection, and choose kindness, life reveals its sacred dimension. Love, when fully seen and honored, becomes both the path and the destination.

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Additional Poems by Lora Hollings

In the simple delight of The Ladybug Poem, we are reminded that awareness often begins with noticing the smallest details. That same awareness unfolds through the quiet optimism of A New Day Has Come and the gentle reflection found in The Gift of Love, where love reveals itself in everyday moments. It deepens further in Inspiring Poems About Daughters and the lasting wisdom shared in Mothers Guide Us Throughout Life, each emphasizing guidance, presence, and care. Together, these reflections naturally lead to The Magic of Being, where these themes converge into a meditation on living with intention, gratitude, and heart.