Sunday, February 05, 2012

Path of Love

Everything I do, I do for Love.
When I am cooking, I do it for Love.
When I am writing, I do it for Love.
When I am counseling, I do it for Love.
When I am sleeping, I do it for Love.
When I am appreciating, I do it for Love.
When I am playing, I do it for Love.
When I am relating, I do it for Love.

When everything we do is done for Love, we are happy and peaceful.
When we do things because we are afraid, obligated or pressured, even then there may be lack of Love.
To return to Love, we may need to apologize, forgive ourselves, find a better way or step away.
There is always choice in following the path of Love.

There are stories of those who loved so fiercely that others were afraid of their Love.
We may hold memories of elders who demanded that we learn to love with respect and obedience.
There in history are those who died for the sake of Love of their principles, a loved one or the planet.
How much of our lives are devoted to steadfast, fierce commitment to unconditional love?

Sometimes loves asks us to step back to find love for safety and for self.
Sometimes love invites us to reach out to those who are demonstrating their lack of love.
Sometimes love shows us how to love each one in a unique way so they can receive Love.
And love for God, our country and the planet may require what seems like courage or sacrifice.

Each one of us finds freedom of our expression of Love through life experiences.
When we feel seen and known, respected  and trusted, we feel safe in our loving.
When we feel misunderstood and devalued, or limited and hurt, we may withhold our loving.
As we relate to others, to new situations, it is valuable to stay away of how we can stay in love.

Consider the possibility that you are the most conscious one in all relationships.
Consider that you must take impeccable care of your own needs, so you can remain clear and consistent.
Consider the opportunity to love everyone, even those who fear love or deny themselves love.
Consider forgiving everyone, including yourself, for not knowing how or forgetting to love.

We can always respond with love when we are on purpose and filled with Love.
We realize others’ need for Love when they are demonstrating lack of Love.
We can discern how to love as we listen within to what is being called forth.
We can awaken ourselves to be sensitive to each person’s needs when we are sensitive to our own.

Life presents opportunities to reveal and heal our wounds, unhealed memories from the past.
Relationships offer similar experiences so we can forgive, understand and return to Love.
When we step back, observe what is, listen to our heart and choose again for Love, we find peace.
The only mistake is when we forget to Love.

I love you.  I see you and I know there is Love in you.
When you are not extending Love to me, I know you need Love.
When I am loving myself, I can easily and naturally extend peace and Love to you.
When I am not loving myself, or in a state of depletion, I pray you will remember to love me.

Question: Are you assuming that the one who always was there loving you, does not need your love?
Now is the time to let them know how valuable there love is, was and continues to be.

Reminding all of us to remember, Love is the key to Abundant Life.
Betty Lue


LOVE
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
No disease that enough love will not heal;
No door that enough love will not open;
No gulf that enough love will not bridge;
No wall that enough love will not throw down;
No sin that enough love will not redeem.

 It makes no difference 
  how deeply seated may be the trouble,
How hopeless the outlook,
How muddled the tangle,
How great the mistake. 
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

If only you could love enough, you would be the happiest 
and most powerful being in the world.

Emmet Fox