Being Love in the World

With great joy welling from deep within me do I write the title for today's post. There was a time, a long time, when I could not write of such things. I was considered hopelessly idealistic, optimistic and childishly trusting of humankind.

I would not choose to go back to those days of self-denial and self-negation. I am glad to be here and now, in a time and place where such sentiments and ideas can be spoken of. We can be love in the world. Oh, yes! It is very real, very much within our range of potentials. I savour it, like the smell of rain on the wind.

I wrote a poem, at a time when all I chose to be and to experience was love, yet when all that seemed to surround me was its absence, and a kind of cruel imitation of what love really is, there to tease us, to lure and then scratch at us, like a petulant cat.

Love Never Lasts

Love never lasts.

Smiles fade silent.

Thought caring went on forever,

But no;

It’s bought, then spent.

Ah! The lonely souls lament,

The despairing cry,

Sink into desolation

Like the clinging green come autumn.

Eyes and voice

Ask and receive.

They fill with expectation now and

Then turn whining, strident.

Ah! The lonely souls lament,

The despairing cry like

Cold black trees dripping

Tears for summer days long lost to winter.

Choose, then, to go

In solitude.

Who can ask for one’s time or care?

Yet, good things, not sought, are sent.

Ah! The lonely souls lament,

The despairing cry.

Yet only those who look within

Will find what they desire.

Sad, isn't it? And then, at the very end, an inkling of the way forward. The path ahead was one of self-sufficiency and sovereignty, bringing us slowly but steadily into the loving potentials that now surround us. Never was love to be found outside of us; always love was there for us, but only from within, from our depths, from the heart of us.

Now, we have an opportunity to be love in the world. Love embodied. Love personified. Love uniquely and perfectly expressed by each of us in his or her individuality, his or her unique way of being in the world.

The attributes of unconditional love, allowing that space for the Other to be all that he or she is, of clear compassion that stands with the Other, no matter where or how the Other stands, of honouring the Other as sacred Being in the world, of open acceptance that shines impartially as sunlight on all that lies before it .... All of these, as we breathe deeply, are available to us, are part of our vibration now, are resonant within us.

And as we choose to do so, we can bring these forth into the world through our breath, through our intention. We can bring these forth in joy, in grace, offering love to those whom we encounter in such quantities as have not been seen through all these many many years. 

Within this vibration of love we will find all that is of God in the world. And as we embody these attributes, we become all that we have ever sought. It is nothing short of miraculous.

If you choose to do so, be love in the world, in the Now.