LOVE AND PURPOSE
It has been said that you teach best what you need to learn. And maybe the reverse is also true. You learn best what you need to teach.
I know one of the things I was put here to learn about was love. I don't doubt it for one minute. This is the theme that runs through all of my posts, my blog, and my interactions with others. Sometimes I think maybe my friends and my family tire of it or just yawn and say, "Well, there's good old Brenda beating her "love drum" again”.
My intent is not to bore anyone with my repetitious hammering away and chipping away with words to clear the way for Love; but rather to assist in any way I can for love to become a more vibrant and real happening for all of us.
I used to think that my calling was to be a “healer”. The healing was to be through using psychology I thought. I got a degree that incorporated within it, psychology. Then I thought it was through becoming a Reiki master and using that to help people heal so I did that. One time I though I would go to massage therapy school and do that to help people heal. Though I have used psychology a lot and in the past have used Reiki, that wasn’t it. The idea of going to massage therapy school never did materialize. I couldn’t give it the energy necessary to create that for myself and I think it was because that wasn’t where my calling was. It wasn’t my “real” purpose.
I can look back on my entire life and all its different stages and chapters and see that the lesson I came to learn about was love. And if this indeed is my lesson, then this is what I am to teach through the living of my life, with, in, and through love. Here is a warning. Be careful what you wish or ask for. The lessons for me have been hard at times but the alternative was to not do the most important thing I came to do and therefore to realize on my death bed that I did not do what I came to do. Love, agape, God-love, goes against our basic human tendencies. It cannot abide by strings or conditions. It cannot justify “righteousness” nor thrive in grudges or hardness of heart. It requires all of you, not just the parts you want to give. It asks that you see beyond what you think is the obvious and see love beyond appearances.
When the love I speak of is who you become and what you are all about then all that you say, all that you do, all that you acquire, all that you accomplish, all that you experience will be done in, with, and through, that love. All of your actions and reactions will carry with them a power and a joy and a peace that passes all human understanding. All of these will turn out to be a blessing to you and to those around you.
It is heaven. It is now. It requires surrender when you can’t yet understand what it is all about. But it is always your choice. Always. No exceptions. Love gently calls your name. All we have to do is show up. Love is the lesson in this school of life. And you will experience over and over again the very things that will help you to learn it until you do learn it. It is all good. It is all God. It is all love. It doesn’t get better than this.
I know one of the things I was put here to learn about was love. I don't doubt it for one minute. This is the theme that runs through all of my posts, my blog, and my interactions with others. Sometimes I think maybe my friends and my family tire of it or just yawn and say, "Well, there's good old Brenda beating her "love drum" again”.
My intent is not to bore anyone with my repetitious hammering away and chipping away with words to clear the way for Love; but rather to assist in any way I can for love to become a more vibrant and real happening for all of us.
I used to think that my calling was to be a “healer”. The healing was to be through using psychology I thought. I got a degree that incorporated within it, psychology. Then I thought it was through becoming a Reiki master and using that to help people heal so I did that. One time I though I would go to massage therapy school and do that to help people heal. Though I have used psychology a lot and in the past have used Reiki, that wasn’t it. The idea of going to massage therapy school never did materialize. I couldn’t give it the energy necessary to create that for myself and I think it was because that wasn’t where my calling was. It wasn’t my “real” purpose.
I can look back on my entire life and all its different stages and chapters and see that the lesson I came to learn about was love. And if this indeed is my lesson, then this is what I am to teach through the living of my life, with, in, and through love. Here is a warning. Be careful what you wish or ask for. The lessons for me have been hard at times but the alternative was to not do the most important thing I came to do and therefore to realize on my death bed that I did not do what I came to do. Love, agape, God-love, goes against our basic human tendencies. It cannot abide by strings or conditions. It cannot justify “righteousness” nor thrive in grudges or hardness of heart. It requires all of you, not just the parts you want to give. It asks that you see beyond what you think is the obvious and see love beyond appearances.
When the love I speak of is who you become and what you are all about then all that you say, all that you do, all that you acquire, all that you accomplish, all that you experience will be done in, with, and through, that love. All of your actions and reactions will carry with them a power and a joy and a peace that passes all human understanding. All of these will turn out to be a blessing to you and to those around you.
It is heaven. It is now. It requires surrender when you can’t yet understand what it is all about. But it is always your choice. Always. No exceptions. Love gently calls your name. All we have to do is show up. Love is the lesson in this school of life. And you will experience over and over again the very things that will help you to learn it until you do learn it. It is all good. It is all God. It is all love. It doesn’t get better than this.
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