This is episode 1,700 and 11.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley, and I welcome you to a brand new series.

We'll be exploring this week.

For seven days, you will be exploring love.

And this is in time for Valentine's Day week.

This week, we celebrate Valentine's Day.

And for the entire month of February, the focus will be on love. In each

meditation series, that's released each week, you will discover a different aspect of love.

And throughout this collection of love meditation series, we will be tapping into the wisdom of C.S. Lewis.

C.S. Lewis was a theologian as well as a professor at Cambridge and Oxford University in England.

And he died in 1963. He is well known for many of his literary works.

You may know him from The Chronicles of Narnia.

So he had a very diverse career where he wrote academically as well as creating imaginative novels for children.

So in his book The Four Loves, he explores the four kinds of love in our life.

And the week before last, we explored the first love, which was that familiar love,

Storges, which is love that is more based on affection or familiarity, usually with family members.

They sort of have to like us because they can't necessarily leave us, so to speak.

We don't need to be around our family members,

but there's usually always a bond or connection with those people in our especially

immediate family.

Well, this week's series is all about the love that you choose for yourself. We cannot choose our family,

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