I remember nearly fifty years ago now when my beloved friend, Ellie B., and I set out to learn about love, specifically how to love. Learning to love. How hard can that be? He caught on before I did, but then he always swore the reverse. Both of us trying to be humble probably.
At any rate, learning to love is not easy-peasy...shucking our shields is merely a first step in the right direction. The first shield being our overcoming, letting go, detaching from our fear of being loved. Wholly and completely loved...God's free gift to give, ours to accept.
To accept, we must loose our shield, ego's invisible fortress, and let it go. That fortress is loosed through ego-deflation in depth...in short, a swap out of our self-determined objective for God's perfect objective.
As we know, we defeat our purpose when we try sending self-determined love to anyone...simply put, trying to self-will love for a perceived unlovable can only get us bupkis.
Love for others comes from within our own self for our own need. Our own need to love. Which then invites anyone in need ...or even want...of love. Dogs have this in their DNA.
I'm convinced love is nonresistance...don't resist, depersonalize. Take nothing personally, and nothing attaches...to our ego or our id...likely because taking nothing personally is a spiritually based action. Spiritually, there is no personal self to protect. There is only Self, which covers it.
The primary analogy for God is Source of Love, Word of Love, and Spirit of Love....Our hearts can literally change our brains. Our altered brains will change our actions. -- Professor Heidi Russell as quoted in Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation," January 13, 2022
Thank you.
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