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July31st

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Rebecca, on Love

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Blog member, Rebecca, shared this eloquent essay about love through a comment, but her message is so profound and powerful that I feel compelled to post it as an entry so no one will overlook it. Thanks, Rebecca!

I wrote this a long time ago. The few people who read it never really “got” it. I guess it’s about time for me to share it with our CE family:Love is so pure, and so simple. Many people confuse it with something difficult and complicated. It is confused with needs, wants, expectations, obligations, desire. Love is none of these. We say “unconditional love” when such does not exist, because love is not an object to be labeled, nor is it finite and something which can exist or not exist through our own will. Conditional love is a contradiction in terms, for that which is conditional does not equate with love at all.

Love is not something to be given or received, because that is not the nature of love. How can one give away what one does not own? Who owns the air we breathe, the scent of a rose, the colors of the spectrum, the warmth of the sun? They exist, as love exists, except love is limitless in all aspects. Love is all. It is God within every living soul. We may become, in our minds, in our thoughts, unattached from love, but it exists nonetheless. We may imagine we are unloved, but it is not so. Love is eternal and omnipotent, even when we do not allow ourselves to embrace it.

We all need to be touched, held, and nurtured. It is necessary to life in the physical world and a tangible expression of love. It is wonderful and pleasurable, but it is not love itself, and its absence does not indicate a lack of love. Lack of love cannot exist, as lack of God cannot exist.

Have you ever loved someone and they responded in an unloving way? This is because they live in fear. They think love is something outside of themselves that they are called upon to attain, to do, to be, to feel…something that is required of them that they don’t understand how to produce. They get it confused with the many things we humans think of as love. So they retreat, out of fear, and fear obscures love. Surrounded by fear, love unacknowledged is perceived as sadness too deep, a pain too unbearable.

Love truly expects nothing in return, for expectations are a human contrivance. Love simply is. We need to stop trying to shut it out for fear that it is something else. Let go of hiding from love, guessing what it may or may not be. Remove the walls we have built in our minds, for love cannot be contained anyway. Neither can we be separated from it, though God knows we try, by seeking it as though it were not here, everywhere.

If we let go of every thought we ever had about love we will see the light shining so brightly we will be amazed that we ever missed it. The day will come when we recognize ourselves as who we truly are and every soul we encounter will bring forth an outpouring of love, beauty will reside in every sight, and peace will be complete. If we would only allow it to be so, the love that permeates our being, unleashed, would transform our world.

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  • Sheri

    Beautifully expressed Rebecca and spot on…funny how we manage to turn something so simple and pure as love into something so extremely complicated…but we humans have a tendency to do that a lot don’t we. ;)

    The best things in life truly ARE free. :)

  • marie payze

    Exquisite! I now look through a clearer lens. Thankyou for travelling the corridors of our minds.

  • http://catloverssite.blogspot.com/ Rebecca

    gosh….thanks! I’m honored! And surprised!

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      No, I’M honored, girl! I’m glad it’s okay with you. It’s just too good to not share.

  • mary slowik

    that was, indeed, the best definition of love I’ve ever heard!
    Thank you!
    God Bless!

  • Shawna

    So true Rebecca. Thank you and Elisa for sharing such a thought provoking essay on Love.

  • Patrick

    @ Rebecca and @ Elisa – still simply terrific and thank you again Rebecca and now thank you, too, Elisa.

  • Susan

    Absolutely beautiful Rebecca and SO TRUE….:-)

    Light and L.O.V.E Susanxoxox

  • http://www.facebook.com/robert.f.burke Robert

    Rebecca…this is absolute beauty! i’m honored to have read your eloquant words. they come from a place of universal truth. thank you for sharing it with the CE family. :-)

  • Joanne

    Thanks so much Rebbecca, that was lovely to read, and re-read. “I wrote this a long time ago”. Have you more gems like this? Hopefully so. Thanks you, Joanne

  • Tracy Lamont

    Beautiful, inciteful and yet, so simple. You are wise beyond words.
    Thanks Rebecca X

  • http://www.angelsloveyou.com Jean Maurie

    Thank you for sharing this Rebecca and Elisa. Love IS! This message is coming out everywhere and it is a huge message we all need for the coming Shift!! ♥♥♥

  • Lorna

    Hello Rebecca

    I am or have been guilty of thinking of love as something not simple. I would also make a point of avoiding most other people as they had the love to give and cruelly take away. I can now see how much fear I carried, still do a little.

    I understand what you are saying and will read through it a number of times as it is so insightfull that I want to absorb the whole thing.

    Thank you, I’m sure it’s not something a lot of people will have throught about xxx

    Hello Elisa and everyone, not been around for a while been missing you all xxx

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Been thinking about you two, Lorna!

  • patty

    beautiful! : )

  • M and M

    Rebecca, thank you for sharing such a clear vision of a bigger picture of love. I love reading your words, they bring such hope and joy. I would agree with you in a lot of ways. I think labeling love as conditional or unconditional is just our way of trying to control it. The way one person shows love may be completely different than the way another shows it, or completely different than the way the receiver believes love should be shown.

    I believe that most of us share the love within us at all times, it may just not be in the way we have allowed society to program us to recognize it. Look at how nations and world civilizations come together after large scale disasters. These are the same people that were there before the disaster, nothing changed except something we all agree as ugly happened. The love was always there in each and every one of us, it’s just that after a disaster, our love gets shown in a way we expect to see it. (Maybe this is part of why the number of large scale disasters is increasing? To wake us up to the fact that we all love each other already, just need to stop trying to control how it is shown…?) I believe most people share their love all the time, it just may be in a manner we are not programmed to recognize- i.e. in the way of hard lessons rather than the nurturing type we expect to see. I know there are people in my life that drive me nuts to no end, but deep down I am very thankful for them teaching me about my buttons, but you’d never know that by watching from the outside. If any of those people were to push my other buttons, they would experience a different show of love (probably one more recognizable as love). However, the love is already there, regardless of which button they push. That just determines the reaction.

    Lynn McTaggart is running a 21 day video session right now called the Fairness Campaign, and one of the things discussed was about finding common values during disputes. If two people are at odds over something, search that other person’s position for overlapping values. For common type of disputes, like neighborhood disputes or issues with co-workers, family, etc, there are usually common values at play. For example, a neighbor who plays their music too loud and the neighbor who complains. Both are protecting their value of freedom. By finding overlapping values, we don’t have to agree with the other but at least we can see from a common place and over time learn to respect each other from that common place. It is a very interesting idea, teaching the acceptance and appreciation for differences rather than looking for sameness in everything. Because underneath it all, our very core is sameness. It’s the outside, the creative part that we show the world, that looks different. Embrace differences, look for common values, and recognize that love comes in all shapes and sizes. Easier said than done, but very interesting discussion.

  • Stanley

    Hello All,

    Wow Rebecca, that was truely touching. And oh so right on. We as people/humans do often think of love as a physical items that we can choose to give or take away from someone. But your right, love doesn’t work that way. It just is. I am glad you shared this, and Elisa posted it. I enjoyed it very much. :)

    -Stanley

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      How are you, Darling Stanley?

  • Karen A

    Rebecca.. This was exceptional! I agree with everything you said. If God (Source) is love and we are part of the source, we are love too. You definitely have a way with words.

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