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Today's
Meditation:
Personally, I believe that we all have "this
extraordinary thing called love" in our hearts, all
the time. And the only thing that keeps us from
feeling it in the glory of its fullness is ourselves-- our
fears, our hesitancies, our judgment, our lack of
experience of just how glorious it is to feel
unconditional love at all times for all people.
We've learned through our lives to be suspicious of all
people, and we've learned the ridiculous art of
"keeping safe" our emotions and feelings, and
those things have taught us to withhold the love that we
feel, to disguise it or even hide it until we're
"certain" that it's worth our while to accept
the love we feel, and that it's safe.
But it's never "safe." And it's always
worthwhile.
One of the biggest obstacles to love is our desire for a
return on our love. If I do loving things for you,
then I expect loving things in return, or at least a
smidgen or two of gratitude. But as soon as I expect
anything back, then my love is conditional, isn't
it? And when love is conditional, there is nothing
of the "depth, delight, the ecstasy of
it." But when we open our hearts to the love
that already is a part of us and we allow ourselves to
feel and express that love, then our lives are
transformed.
Sometimes I think that we're like cars sitting in a
parking lot, everything in working order and the gas tanks
full. The only thing that's missing is the key, and
we're keeping that in our pockets because once we take
them out someone might steal them. It's this fear of
bad things happening that keeps us from showing the love
in our hearts, so we never experience the wonderful things
that can happen when we risk taking out that key and
firing up the engine. There will be stop signs and
potholes and slowdowns because of construction and even
the occasional accident, but there will also be the many
moments of ecstasy that we never would have experienced
had the key stayed useless in our pockets.
Is your love being expressed fully, or is it sitting
useless in your pocket?
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