Probably most everybody has heard that we must love in order to be loved. It seems to me that we first must learn what love means to us, each of us, personally.
I dislike good old Gertrude, I pray God bless her, change me. However, until I become willing to know and show love for Gertrude in my own mind, with my very own ragtag thoughts, that prayer is likely to remain just so many words. Nothing is impossible to God, only there 's a whole lot that is highly improbable.
My long-ago prayer was simply that I love and be loved...emphasis on "be loved." All I knew about love was, if you met with my unqualified approval, that was love. Unfortunately my standards for others have always been extremely high...hence, my unqualified approval mostly went begging.
Interestingly, almost all that I know about love today I have learned through error...through my own idea of what and how I needed to love, I've met humility face to face. That's how I learned that humiliation is just humility aborning...welcome it.
Today I call my warts my love-lights for they certainly have turned the light on my rocky road to love. I believe that it is through learning to live by spiritual principles that we can experience even a glimmer of the reality of the love within us.
According to Joel Goldsmith, this power of love, "which is God," is a law of attraction, and therefore, it can only attract to us those whom we can love/serve. and those who can love/serve us since we are all one.
I just love that...I no longer go searching for those I can help, love, serve or for those who can help, serve, love me. God within me is attracting my own to me just as I am being attracted by God to others.
Again, let go and let God.
Thank you.
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