My first very own pet was a little seven-pound dog, a
Maltese whose name was Ari…Ari of Aslan to be exact…Ari from the book Exodus, and Aslan from The Chronicles of Narnia, two of my favorite books. I loved
that little guy with every drop of blood that was in me…and he loved me right
back.
Ari was a wonderful learning tool for me…all he wanted was
to love me, and if I wasn’t around, he’d love whoever was there. It came to me
one day that I needed to depersonalize that…it wasn’t that all Ari wanted was
to love me, it was that all Ari wanted was to love.
I realized that there is a little Ari at the core of all of
us…all we really want is to love. We kid ourselves if we believe all we want is
to be loved…or even to love and be loved. It is simply to love without concern
for what comes back that is at the core of all of us.
It is fear of that core that keeps it so tightly held, not
recognized, denied. Our core is God, our fear is self. It is only by
letting go of self…protection, interests, wants…that we will truly open to our
own core, the Father within.
For each of us to truly open to our own core will bring John
Lennon’s song “Imagine” to life: “And the world will live as one.”
Thank You.
Thank You.
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