I spotted this tonight after dinner with my older son and his girlfriend. I wanted to learn what it meant, so I took a photo so I wouldn’t forget. When I got home, I googled it and found: “I am loved.”

I always like to interpret the little hearts I spot in nature as life’s subtle love notes from God. But this didn’t feel like a sign or something subject to interpretation (beyond the obvious translation to English); this was a statement. When I looked up the translation online, I got to read it aloud: “I am loved.” And then I repeated: “I am loved.” Then I smiled, because I knew in that moment that I truly am.

So grateful.