When I tell you that I love I am also telling you that I also appreciate you. Appreciation isn't everything love is, but it is necessary. Love without appreciation isn't love at all.
Love is full of appreciation. It is full of thankfulness and gratitude. It recognizes the value of another and expresses the joy of experiencing that value. It celebrates the place of another. Love prizes the other person. Love delights in the other person. Love celebrates the other person. Love holds dear the mystery of another person.
Love cherishes the unconditional worth of another person. Appreciation is an expression of admiration. It is an expression of respect. Appreciation is an act of thankfulness. It recognizes the contribution of the unique qualities only the other person brings. It knows the other as being individual, irreplaceable.
Appreciation sets the stage for fulfilling potential. It is the environment of success, growth and healing. It is the landscape of recovery. People who live within a sphere of appreciation more readily fulfill the potential they hold. Appreciation becomes faith and leads to self-confidence and accomplishment and validation.
In time appreciation sets people free from dependence and leads them to independence and then further to interdependence. Appreciation fosters intimacy and closeness and releases fear and clinging. Appreciation sets us free from desperation and self-protection.
Without appreciation love is reduced to possessiveness or envy. But true love includes appreciation.
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