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▣ What’s love got to do with it?0
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“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” Henry Drummond The short and perfect answer to this question is, “love has everything to do with it.” However, because we are human beings, short and perfect answers usually give us reasons to stay the same rather than to look inside, let go, and grow, so we will expand on the question. “You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” Henry Drummond The short and perfect answer to this question is, “love has everything to do with it.” However, because we are human beings, short and perfect answers usually give us reasons to stay the same rather than to look inside, let go, and grow, so we will expand on the question. What is love? In his book, Love or Perish, Dr. Smiley Blanton has stated that “the greatest human need is the need for love, and that none of us can survive without it. Man must have love in his life in some form or he will perish. Love is the greatest power on earth.” How we define love says a lot about us.
If we examine love from a perspective of “having/being” rather than “not having/looking for,” we can add a new dimension to our lives… “Those who bitterly declare that their lives are without love are mistakenly looking to someone or something outside themselves for love. Begin realizing now that love is first within you and can be released through your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions. As you begin developing love from within outward, you are truly proving your method to be spiritual, scientific, and satisfying. You no longer feel at the mercy of people, situations, or conditions. You become the master of your world and free from hurt, fear, disappointment, and disillusionment.” Catherine Ponder, The Prospering Power of Love, Unity Books, 1966 In fact, what if WE ARE LOVE? What if the love we are looking for outside ourselves actually exists within us? What if our true nature is love? We are Spiritual Beings experiencing through a physical body. Our journey is to recognize that we are the love that we are searching for. Our challenge is to recognize ourselves as love, to trust it, and to allow it to flow in, around, and through us. As we release this love energy, we allow it ultimately to dissolve our fears, to help us understand and learn from our personal defeats, and to develop a vision of ourselves through this love rather than through the self-image we have developed through the expectations of our lives with its up’s and down’s, our family’s dynamics, our friends, magazines, television, etc. “The security you seek is within. It comes from seeing yourself as beautiful,… It’s the act of self-love -- the acceptance, detachment, and forgiveness of self. It’s where you wake up and remember that you are not the spotty-faced teenager who was ridiculed and shunned; you are a powerful, eternal spirit, imbued with the Christ consciousness, and here with a mission to fulfill and lessons to learn – a spirit of infinite honor and integrity that has a connection to all the knowledge that exists.” (Stuart Wilde, The Little Money Bible, “The Law of Love, Compassion, and Money,” Hay House, 2003) Your role in this journey is to dare to release this love from within yourself…
Daily affirmation for this week… ”Divine love, expressing through me, now draws to me all that is needed to make me happy and my life complete.” Catherine Ponder “I love all people and all people love me, without attachment.” Catherine Ponder |