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It’s really all about Love

hanging-angel.jpgIn starting the post I am almost without words. The saying of what I am feeling to be conveyed on the written screen, or ink on page is really not possible.

I think everyone will agree that “energy is everything” and energy applied to ones work, to ones self, from spirit, or from ones thoughts is very powerful. I might go as far to say that thoughts and the application of the energy behind those thoughts is everything.

The fact is we were all created in the image of love. What is it, what force, what thought takes us away from love? If we were created in the likeness of spirit, and the likeness of love, we should in theory be all powerfull. I don’t mean power in the sense of physical strength, or in the amount of money we make, but to be able to react to energy in a way that we always react with love.

The prayer of St, Francis says:

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Love is everything. Where we sow love energy only loving things can be manifested from that.

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

Make the latter of these statements your thoughts, your energy, your reaction to the initial. If you do this you will only feel love. When a spouse yells;return Love. When a fellow worker scorns; return Love and love is all you will feel, and in return…..love is all they will feel. This is not mastering your emotions, this is not anger management. This is your divine birthright, and what you were put here to do.

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
We only reap the bounty of the seeds that we sow. My Parents have been the most loving, caring, giving, people I have ever known. My gratitude for them reaches boundaries not able to be written. My Daughter has been a blessing thousands of times over and the challenges she hands me on a daily basis are my life teachings. My girlfriend and future wife (hopefully ;) has been another of the wonders of life energy colliding and I cant wait to spend all of my days with her. My Sister;Laura, Sister;Patty,Niece;McKayla, Brother;Hugh, Sister-in-law;Andrea, and their future child are all gifts of love energy. Powerful Love energy that gives and will forever always be there.
If you are reading this and thinking that I am on my pulpit preaching, well you might be right, but I guess that is my right since this is my blog. If you are thinking that this guy is a religious freak, hey think what you will. Anyone that knows me knows that I am not outwardly religious if ever and might even be a bit surprised by the writing. However, anyone that knows me knows that I am loving, I am giving, I am creative, and that I always have best intentions in mind even if I show it in an awkward way sometime.
My hope is that if you are reading this, and that if you have made it this far that you are feeling the love that I am conveying through this post, and that you come away feeling better because of it. Maybe the next time someone sends you hatred, you will send back love, and maybe if you feel the need to send hatred outward, you will think twice about your actions. Pour love into the world and the world will dump love back onto you.
I am not writing this from a position of all knowing. I am surely not writing this from a position of perfection. I however am writing this from a position of humility, and writing this not only for those reading it, but for myself to visit whenever necessary, for me to live by, and as a reminder that life isn’t always the way we want it, but life is however always perfect.
If your reading this…I love you.

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5 Responses to “It’s really all about Love”

  1. mousewords says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 6:19 pm

    Love ya right back!

    This was a beautiful entry, and such a wise perspective. Thank you for sharing, you made a familiar poem fresh again in my mind, and I can’t help remembering that advice. May the Lord keep blessing you with love in your life!

  2. AnnOhio says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 6:29 pm

    I think some of the best blog posts are those that are written straight from the heart, those that seem to almost write themselves. It’s not always easy to put one’s heart out there on the line, or to put sad things out there for the world to see.

    We are all made a little more vulnerable by sharing…

    <3

    Ann

  3. Len Edgerly says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    These are good words for me to take in on a night when my my political candidate went down to a shocking defeat, leaving me pretty devastated. So thanks, my friend!

  4. sara says:
    January 9th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

    I thought that little thing was cute =]
    I liked the part about me of course <3
    love you daddy

  5. Todd Jordan says:
    April 25th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    Very true about giving love. I believe love isn’t about how we feel towards others, it’s all about how we act. Great share.

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