IMPERSONAL, ALBEIT LIVING, LOVE

The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken and call us back to the first memory of being the life force inside a dark place waiting to be born—waiting to see the light. -- Cultural critic bell hooks

It is interesting to me how often I have a flash of brand-new insight yet when I go to write about it, I find an almost identical thought of another having just come to light. The bell hooks' quote is a fairly close example. 

For the past few days, weeks...months?...I have been pondering love...and realizing how little I know about love...what I call impersonal love or even free-floating love. Love not attached to anyone or anything in particular, just free-standing love.

I guess a fairly decent way to describe it is nonresistance to anything or anybody. I think nonresistance as opposed to acceptance. Nonresistance calls for no response...nada.  Acceptance gives a peaced feeling which just calls for sharing it, talking about it, telling our world!

At any rate, I've been pondering love purely because it was given me as a passing thought.  I simply accepted it by letting it wander loose in my mind...I attached no personal thought to it, I kinda, sorta, almost let it ponder me.

I make note of this because I had an example of it alive in my life just yesterday...I was in discussion with a friend who, somewhat agitatedly, said "You are wrong!" I responded not at all...not in an "I'm ignoring you" way, I just continued chatting on my thought. At that point, she responded positively to what I was saying, and our conversation continued undisturbed.

That is not the way I would normally act nor the way she would normally respond. Looking back, it was as if we were both taken out of context of the conversation, blessed, dropped back in, so we could keep on chatting. 

Don't tell me that wasn't God's will, God's way. 

Personally, I expect more such spiritual acts in our lives, please and thank You. Amen.

Thank you.