World of Love

The Great Creator manifested this world with love, and IS love itself. Love is the Great Creator’s divine creative expression. We are a part of the Great Creator. So that makes us love too, right?

The Great Creator needs desires and craves to express love. The Great Creator, the manifestation of the divine, as you so chose to see Him/Her/It- God. God would not be God if it were not for love. So why do we call it co-dependant to need, want and crave love? Is God co-dependant? When we run from expressing and committing to love in all our relationships, are we running from God? And is that what we intended to do? Are we using new age teachings of separateness as an escape, for protection, and an excuse to not express deep committed love?

These are the questions that arise in me to be examined and I find myself challenged to live the answers. And yes, I have discovered many ways I too run from love because I too have been hurt, burned, crushed and crucified. But I discovered running is futile because my soul craves love, just as yours does. We want enlightenment, freedom, openness, and these can only be fulfilled with love. We also are human and we need to be nurtured and loved by our family and intimate partners. The fear we use to separate us from one another in wearing us out! It is time to acknowledge the challenge of our times, to acknowledge our humanness and live in Love, in our selves and in our relationships with each other.

We tell our friends how much we love appreciate them just before we move out of the town. We let our co-workers know how much we love and appreciate them just before we quit our jobs. We will profoundly reveal ourselves to a loved one just before we die. Sometimes we will risk entering a powerfully loving relationship just before we move from the area; etc... This list goes on and on. Now is it easy to share our hearts with a stranger on the street? Is it easy to feel open and loving when we are helping someone out that we know we will never see again? Is it easy to express love to our friends because we can go home and shut the door? The real challenge is to deeply and profoundly love the ones who are in our face all day long, and that is usually our families and intimate relationship partners. These are the ones that have the real potential to open us, awaken us further than we have ever been before.

Then there are the people who work daily to walk with an open heart and express love fully. These ones are challenged to create a place to really BE the living expression of love and in the ugly face of the 3D world. We discover that love is hard to maintain in a world of masks, games and walls. We discover that it is confronting to those we flow love out to. They become afraid of our openness and depth of love and/or they feel they don't deserve boundless love. Either way they run from it. Sometimes we are labeled dysfunctional and codependent for our openness and for allowing our human needs for love to be expressed. Many times we find this to painful to survive wide open, so we close down a little to fit in, or to be accepted. We become less than who we truly are. Many of us sell out for less, in shallow unfulfilling relationships, hoping careers, homes and cars will fulfill the empty yearning spot inside that can only be filled with love. But we know these options fall way short of making us shine.

Remember the time you moved from an area, or a friend was moving away? Remember the profound love you felt for them and felt safe to express it? Why is it that we find it challenging to live in this open state all the time? Love feels so good when we are there, and the freedom love gives is profound. So it is puzzling why so many will choose to shut down and basically feel the dull pain of separation all the time, rather than to risk loving fully. Yes, if we open to love, there is the possibility that we many get burned some where down the road. But it is better to hurt and feel lonely all the time? … Or … is it better to dive into love’s wonderful bliss and let it grow and expand in our soul? Who said, "it is better to have loved and lost that to have never love at all"? Do we believe this? Are we living this challenge in our lives right now?

This is the challenge… to live in each moment as if it was our last and love with all that we have. Why? Because the only thing I know for sure these days is that LOVE is eternal. The gifts we gain by opening our hearts are the only truth our soul understands. Loving one another, in friendship and in our intimate relationships is forever. Allowing someone to love us completely is everlasting. It is the love expressed and received that is the only thing we can take with us when we make the journey. The tragic part is the only thing that will sadden us on the other side if the love we withheld because we were to afraid to share our hearts, and we will find ourselves wanting to come back again to do it right.

Like most of us we grew up in homes that were shut down, dysfunctional, drug induced, abusive and down right bizarre. We have had no education for opening and living fully in love as God loves. Our mothers and fathers, bless them, did their best. Our organized traditions and religions have done their best too. Yet we feel the lack in their examples and teachings. So this is the challenge that is between God and us. This is what we came here for. We came here to drop the masks, the games, and illusions that we hide behind. We came to love fully just as God does. Did we actually think God holds back because He/She/It worries that He/She/It might get burned? No way, this is God! God is living truth and the only truth is LOVE. Love makes us feel profoundly alive and complete, but love is not for sissies. It takes total surrender and the willingness to lose your self in love. So this is the call, the challenge, the quest, to take a step beyond what we have learned from our parents and religions and even our past experiences. It is the time to surrender courageously into the light of love.

What you give is what you receive. How you give is how you receive. When you give is when you receive….