Wednesday, June 14, 2017

LIKE...JUST LIKE

I awoke this morning to a blinding flash of the obvious: Give up your desire to love and be loved. Like. Just like. 

What freedom!

In truth I do like most people I meet. Here's permission to not take it further, no need to agree with their every weird thought, or to disagree for that matter. Just like them...that is enough!

My stated goal has ever been to love and be loved...and I've spent way too many years trying to find the exactly right sense of what that means, what "love" means to me. I can give up the search...just like 'em.

That's the difference between a self-determined objective (to love and be loved) and a spiritual objective (like...just like). It occurs to me that's also why a self-determined objective is so difficult to let go of...doesn't "to love and be loved" sound better, deeper, MORE, than "to like...just like?" Which sounds kinda puny, doesn't it? But it feels...well, like freedom. And what's to hate there?

God loves me so much...God loves. I like that.

Thank you.

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