Love Is The Only Gold

In Act IV of Tennyson's play Becket, two characters meet and speak to each other:

ELEANOR: We can't all of us be as pretty as thou art--... Come, here is a golden chain I will give thee if thou wilt lead me to thy mother.
GEOFFREY: No--no gold. Mother says gold spoils all. Love is the only gold.

                  Becket  (a play by Alfred Lord Tennyson)  Act 4, Scene 1 The Outskirts of the Bower


   Recently, I was driving my car when the person next to me was telling me about things she didn't have, namely, monetary and material things. I told her to look in the back seat of the car. Our children were asleep after a long plane flight from Arizona, their heads tilted and leaning toward each other against the cushions.  Pointing to both of them, I said to her, "There is all the treasure you need."
   Tennyson said it better, "Love is the only gold."

    I will look at love differently now. I will cherish it like gold and value its worth forever.