LOVE

It is 42 F but Winter still has its icy grip. The last snowfall seemed to lock us into the Winter experience. I don't like being impatient, it is not exactly a virtue, but I have to admit I long to walk on pathways that are not slippery, I would love to roam around my yard without wading through a foot of snow, I am eager to see the ground again and watch the swelling buds. I know it will happen soon! I heard a Green Heron again this Morning. And If one looks closely, the buds are swelling.

The promise of Spring dangles out in front of us just like the promise of a new world. As I have said before I am not going to focus on the craziness that is extant. I have to believe it is passing just like the last dregs of Winter.

Yesterday I had a thought that opened my mind a little wider. I think it is something most people already know [I do too- but it hit me with greater power]. It occurred to me that like forgiveness, love is for us- not for the other. It came to me as a powerful message that when we love somebody we get more out of it than the person we love. It comes back to us in all kinds of ways and not necessarily from the beloved.

As I say, I might be preaching to the choir, as all you folks may realize this. I have long known that forgiveness freed me and [potentially] gave me more than the one forgiven. It freed me from whatever judgement I was making which is a huge gift. But love itself radiates back to the lover. Every time we feel love we raise our consciousness a degree. Perhaps, I am not poet enough or sufficiently articulate to express what I could see in that moment. Simultaneously, I felt a great freedom and could understand how love can change the world.

It is one thing to love the world abstractly, that is to wish everyone well. That is powerful in itself as it frees the world from any negativity in our individual minds. However, to actually feel love for everyone is powerful beyond calculation. We do have the power to change the world.

Another thing I could see in that moment was being in love [in that sense] was being in heaven.

That is my thought for the day.

Happy Monday!

Love and Peace, Gregg