Love - Disguised!
Look more closely...
It is easy to recognize love between parent and child, husband and wife, family members and amongst friends. It is even easy to see it between a dog and his owner or in a neighborhood where people have depended upon each other for years.
Love thrives in the obvious places but it also thrives in some not so obvious places.
Love stands on its own, it doesn't need to be qualified or justified.
Left on its own, it can move mountains, heal the body temple, reveal the truth that liberates the soul, and creates what appears to be miracles.
Give me one emotion to feel on a permanent basis and I choose love.
Love has its own language and it is spoken in many tongues. And unless you learn to speak that language, you could miss the message and the offering.
Love isn't always spoken or written down in a note. Sometimes love isn't even said aloud; instead it is in a whisper, or a wink or in a deed.
I have a woman that walks my neighborhood religiously and on rainy or snowy days, she stops at the houses of all the people that she knows in the neighborhood, interrupting her walk to bring papers up closer to their doorsteps.
Isn't that Love?
A parent that wants the best for their child will often find themselves having to say "NO", when a yes could make their life so easy. The NO is an investment in their child's welfare and future.
Isn't that Love?
When someone finally decides to stop drinking or smoking or cheating or lying
because they finally see the harm that is being caused to others and to themselves and through a moment of pure Grace, they give way to the high road.
Isn't that Love?
Take a pet owner who has to make the choice to put their cat or dog down because their pet is in too much discomfort. Isn't that decision one that tears your heart open but reveals your devotion?
Isn't that Love?
I've heard a familiar complaint from so many: my father/mother never told me that they loved me. While this might be true, that person was fed, cared for, provided for and educated. The parent or parents worked jobs they might or might not have liked to make that happen.
Isn't that a form of Love?
May I always err on the side of Love.
May I always see the good through the fog of confusion.
May I always forgive too soon.
May I bring Love wherever I go.
May I be Love, now and always.
Love truly makes the world go around. Are you generating love in your life?
Try love, without reason and with complete abandon.
Love yourself more today than yesterday - you deserve it.
sent from Rev. Michelle Wadleigh
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