Love is all there is and it is Divine!
By Brenda Elliot
The only time love is denied us is when we resist it.
Sometimes we just don't open to it because we don't recognize the form in which it is appearing. We have our ideas of what love looks like, feels like, and acts like; so, we sweep away love that doesn't fit that idea.
Sometimes we are just too afraid of being hurt to reach out and completely give ourselves to it. I am not talking about just romantic love. I am talking about love in any relationship. We can feel pain in so many ways and none of us likes that. What if I get rejected at some point? What if I really give myself over to love and this person dies? What if I surrender and then they use me or turn on me or demand things of me I can't or won't want to do? What if I am made a fool of? What if they leave me? What if they won’t love me back?
These are some of the modes of resistance that we use to keep love at a safe distance. And then we wonder why we are starving to death for love.
So, we may try to love but we hold back some. We don't give all. We try to control others and they try to control us in order to prevent discomfort. We think if we can just make our neighbor, our friend, our family member, our lover or spouse or boss or co-worker do this or that or stop doing this or that, then everything will be okay and love will not be a problem. Where love is concerned, we are used to strings and conditions.
To give love, to get love; to be love, surrender is required. We must surrender our need to be "right", let go of our fears and be willing to feel the pain of separation or loss if it should come. When someone is appearing unloving, we can know that that person is resisting love and we can love them anyway. We can love ourselves for the same reason when we resist love. Resisting love is a defense against hurt and fear. All we want is to love and to be loved but sometimes we don’t know how to do it.
What appears as lack of love is our inability to surrender completely to love. Once you surrender to love, love is yours forever and it will change you. It will change the world you see and experience. There will be so much love at your doorstep you wonder how you missed it before.
When you have love inside you, you will draw more love to you; but, some people who are resisting love and not loving it may find their way to you because they sense that love in you. When you are steadfast in divine love, you will provide a perfect and safe place for them to surrender to love. Love does that.
God is love. Love is all there is. Scoop it up. Invite it in. Surrender to it. Be willing to give it and to receive it.
We are the love we seek and that is all there is. And so it is. |
