Divine Love
I read this somewhere recently:
As one becomes a source of Divine love rather than an eternally hungry searcher for love, the picture of one's life changes.
When I considered this statement, I realized that when a person is hungry for and searches for love, the ego can misguide or misdirect them. This can manifest itself in many ways. People may brag for example or try to become powerful enough to demand attention and notoriety as a means of getting "love". Sometimes people will become doormats or stalkers in an attempt to get love. They may do outlandish things or break all the laws to get love and attention or as a way to express their anger over not getting love. When we try to get love it almost always ends up being a negative experience even if you just become a really nice person or people pleaser. That won't hurt others so much as a rule (thought it can) but it will certainly hurt you in the long run.
When, on the other hand, we are able to allow Divine Love to flow through us, we love more honestly and openly because all the grasping that we do when we are trying to get love is less necessary. Why? Because we are already filled and the hunger is only to keep that Divine Flow going. What we then get back from others is just frosting on the cake and I like to think it is all Divine Love being reflected back at us even when it is being delivered by another person. I believe that we can love with our human capacity but it becomes enhanced when we allow it to become one with Divine Love.
The more you can drop or lay aside your personal issues, prejudices, demands, judgments and such, the more Divine Love has a chance to flow unimpeded. This is called giving your will to God/Infinite Being.
When we ask for God’s will to be done, what we are really asking for is to allow Divine Love to act through us as completely as possible as often as possible. We can begin to notice when we are blocking and then we can release it. It isn’t for the faint of heart to desire to carry out this mission.
Everything is a call for love. It is easier to accept ourselves and others and our behaviors when we know that all anyone wants is love and they are trying to get it one way or another. In some cases that is through acting out or doing things that upset other people. Either way it is someone expressing their idea that they lack love.
When we love, when we set aside our own human will, our lives change and we find that love is no longer something we search for but rather it is something we become.
As one becomes a source of Divine love rather than an eternally hungry searcher for love, the picture of one's life changes.
When I considered this statement, I realized that when a person is hungry for and searches for love, the ego can misguide or misdirect them. This can manifest itself in many ways. People may brag for example or try to become powerful enough to demand attention and notoriety as a means of getting "love". Sometimes people will become doormats or stalkers in an attempt to get love. They may do outlandish things or break all the laws to get love and attention or as a way to express their anger over not getting love. When we try to get love it almost always ends up being a negative experience even if you just become a really nice person or people pleaser. That won't hurt others so much as a rule (thought it can) but it will certainly hurt you in the long run.
When, on the other hand, we are able to allow Divine Love to flow through us, we love more honestly and openly because all the grasping that we do when we are trying to get love is less necessary. Why? Because we are already filled and the hunger is only to keep that Divine Flow going. What we then get back from others is just frosting on the cake and I like to think it is all Divine Love being reflected back at us even when it is being delivered by another person. I believe that we can love with our human capacity but it becomes enhanced when we allow it to become one with Divine Love.
The more you can drop or lay aside your personal issues, prejudices, demands, judgments and such, the more Divine Love has a chance to flow unimpeded. This is called giving your will to God/Infinite Being.
When we ask for God’s will to be done, what we are really asking for is to allow Divine Love to act through us as completely as possible as often as possible. We can begin to notice when we are blocking and then we can release it. It isn’t for the faint of heart to desire to carry out this mission.
Everything is a call for love. It is easier to accept ourselves and others and our behaviors when we know that all anyone wants is love and they are trying to get it one way or another. In some cases that is through acting out or doing things that upset other people. Either way it is someone expressing their idea that they lack love.
When we love, when we set aside our own human will, our lives change and we find that love is no longer something we search for but rather it is something we become.
posted by Brendisima | 5:09 AM
1 Comments:
what an interesting post. divine love is so universal. you may find this article about divine love interesting also.
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