each person can change the world: Lessons for Life ~ Love

18^th of July 2009

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LESSONS FOR LIFE ~ LOVE

I hope that some of the lessons (Lessons for Life) written about in this blog resonate with a part of you. This message is one that should be the most obvious; however, I for one know from experience just how difficult it can be to see through the clouds that enshroud our daily lives.

The greatest gift we have to give anyone, including ourselves, is LOVE! To some that may sound trite, and yet there is nothing more important than understanding how LOVE moves within our lives. I’ve written many times how we enter this world knowing only one thing…how to LOVE, and yet, we are taught everything else.

The reason we know how to love when we are born has as much to do with the place we come from as it does that we spend up to nine months inside a cradle constructed for LOVE...the womb of our mother. In most cases that person radiates love when she’s pregnant. We cannot come into this world with the cumulative knowledge of our previous lifetimes, because it would impede those lessons we agreed to learn. For the majority of us, the process of growing within our mother’s womb is also a central focus of the love that is cherished by both mother and child.

It must also be said that regardless of the circumstances surrounding our lifetime, we must discover how to love ourselves. Many of us have experienced some truly atrocious things within this lifetime. If you have suffered from abuse, neglect and dysfunction, I do understand how difficult it is to do something as simple as loving yourself. Many of us think that it is far easier to find love from another, but that will never give you the depth or the breath of the LOVE that you require. We must do that for ourselves in order to know that what we receive from others may be wondrous, but it is cursory to that which we know within ourselves.

I am speaking of a LOVE that you share with another. A deep and abiding LOVE that you share with that special person as you build your own family. This Love is truly a gift and must be cherished as you give unconditionally to that person and receive simultaneously from them. There is nothing that can emulate the feeling as you find that one person and infatuation blossoms into a deep, fulfilling LOVE that you desire as your heart aches in their absence.

I am also referencing a love that you give freely to all others who surround you and enter our lives through all sources. Yes, the person you read about in the news or see on the television should invoke a sense of LOVE and COMPASSION. Yes, this love is different from that you share with someone special, but your neighbors, your co-workers, colleges and even the people you meet on the street deserve your LOVE. We must refrain from judging others because unless we are able to walk in their foot steps, we are truly incapable of knowing how or why they got where they are now. That is where the LOVE in our hearts needs to be sent even to the person we pass on the road during our travels. The nameless person that we catch a glimpse of in passing, deserve the same LOVE that we send to our family, our friends and those we cherish dearly. Even then, it is our responsibility to find it within our heart to choose LOVE over all other emotions during the course of our daily lives. That may be a more challenging concept to digest; as you think, “I must love the stranger who bumps into me at the coffee shop spilling my double foam chi late all over my new suit. The answer is “Yes!” As difficult as you think that may be, it is our duty to find it within our heart to feel LOVE as apposed to anger, frustration or any other emotion.

LOVE comes and goes in many different forms. As the world continues to change, we must connect with LOVE as our primary emotion, but let it be that which we fall too first, last and always. For the average person that is not how we focus our daily living, but it should be. As we make the change in connecting to LOVE, we will find that it is easier to give and to receive. Let LOVE be your focus always and forever, it will never lead you astray.