February is the month with a holiday that celebrates love. I prefer to celebrate love every day. No need for Hallmark cards, flowers or chocolate. Oh, wait, I want to keep the chocolate! But really, I love love! I want to celebrate love every day. Do you?

At any time of year, we may hear people ecstatically proclaim they are falling in love. I wonder when the phrase "falling in love" was created? Shakespeare used the phrase in As You Like It, but was he the first? In other uses of the word "falling", there seems to be an implication of: 1) losing control, and 2) descending rapidly with negative consequences. If you're skating and you fall down--ouch, you hurt your butt! If the stock market falls--ouch, you hurt your bank account. If you should fall off a cliff . . . well, you get the idea.

Singer songwriter David Roth has created a beautiful song entitled "Rising in Love."  When I first heard it years ago, I was struck by the first verse:

Everyone looks for their calling in love

But I always find it surprising

The way people say that they're falling in love

When I always felt I was rising

I like the idea of rising in love. There is awe to it, a tender lightness around it and a place to aspire to rather than fall in to. So, let's take a closer look at the idea of rising in love.

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