LOVE IS NEVER PASSIVE

 

I am getting an early start. I need to accompany Jamie to a doctor appointment. We need to leave here at 10AM. Usually, I do the crossword puzzle first, and catch up on some reading, while drinking a couple cups of coffee.

I hope everyone had a good Holiday. We did; although, we had an incident Christmas night. Jamie was standing on a stool reaching for something on a high shelf, she slipped, fell down, and dislocated her shoulder. We didn't know what it was, only that it was excruciatingly painful. We went to the emergency room. She was anesthetized and the bone was put back in its socket. We were there from 10PM until close to 2AM. Despite this we did have a good holiday. And that is why, I have to accompany her to her doctors appointment. In an emergency, she could drive, but it is not wise to drive with one arm in a sling.

I recently heard some criticism of new age spirituality. There is a more serious criticism, that it dulled peoples senses about how they were being controlled and enslaved. I haven't parsed that concept. Perhaps they are right. However, creeping control, was coming from everywhere and the media provided much opiate for the masses.

The criticism I would like to address, is that it was passive and shallow. In some respects it was. I remember in the Seventies, some people made jokes about the 'vinyl warmers'; these were folks who flocked to teachers and gurus and the only thing they accomplished was to warm the vinyl chairs. However, in every crowd, whether it be hundreds or thousands, some heard. Perhaps, only four or five out of a hundred, but they were turned on, and they spread the Light.

We didn't hear much about love, outside of romance. Oh, we knew about it, but it wasn't common parlance. I was too busy dealing with the brambles in my own path to know or criticize other folks choices.

Love is a choice; it is never passive. When we decide to take the path of love, we first have to look at our minds. How do we think? Do we have thoughts that are not loving? Negative thoughts can be very seductive and very insistent. Learning to choose love, in our own minds over fear, is a life long struggle and there is nothing passive about it.

All behavior begins in our minds, how are we thinking? We can fake how we feel. We can fake how we behave. Can we fake how we think? Can we fool ourselves?

Love demands expression. It presents itself as a choice in how we treat our neighbor, our spouses, our friends, our family and the world. We are constantly choosing between love and fear. It may be subtle, at times, but it is always active. Love may be peaceful, patient, unassuming, it is never passive.

Love is what connects us to each other. Love is the energy that surrounds us. No matter what the problem is, the question is; what is the most loving solution?

I need to give water to my sheep and do a few more chores before we are ready to go. I assume I will be continuing my Monday, Wednesday, Friday writing schedule.

Love and Peace, Gregg