Love is Spoken Here

This month in Primary the kids have been working on learning "Love is Spoken Here". It's beautiful and has an equally beautiful message. I love hearing the kids sing it -- it's one of those partner songs, where you sing one verse, sing another and then sing the verses together. It's wonderful to hear children literally singing in harmony about love being the language spoken in their homes.

This has led me to consider the way I act, talk and treat other people. Do I speak the language of love? Do I act like I know the language of love? I remember a quote by Martin Luther King that has always stuck with me: "The time is always right to do what is right." Acting with love is always doing what is right. I also remember trying to define integrity for a group of young women some years ago and came up with this: Some people do things right. Others do the right thing. That is integrity. I think acting with integrity is using the language of love as well.

Speaking the language of love, acting with integrity and living in harmony with others are all ways for us to become more like the perfect example, our Savior Jesus Christ. As the last line of the song says, "I can often feel the Savior near when love is spoken here".

If we all speak the language of love, not only to those we are supposed to love, but to all who cross our paths, we can feel the Savior near. I know that's what I want.