Love Is . . . .
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Love is.......... (topic #5)
Love Is . . . .
“ I love, I am in love, I’m falling in love”. These are common expressions describing the warmth that flows over us when we are touched by the presences of love. Our need for it is enormous and essential, both for physical and mental health, whether we are loving our surroundings, giving love to another, receiving, or loving self. The experience invades our mind beyond any self control and those moments are a delight.
When love flows between two people, the energy that we call love, builds upon itself, taking us into unfamiliar territory. Sometimes that love for another is one sided and yet it is gratifying, but singular. Having love of self allows us to approach everyday challenges with grace, knowing that nothing external can match the feeling of love.
We use the word love lightly, to describe our favourite likes, to say good bye to family members and even intimately when it is absent in the moment. However love is the energy that supports all life and without it no-thing exists.
So I wonder what you think Love is:
- Is it always present, as is air
- Does it come from the universe or even deeper
- What in us, turns on the value that allows love to flow
- When feeling love toward another, are we loving the qualities in them or loving the reflection of our own beauty
- Does love of self connect us with the love in all living things?
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- By Paul Kemp Administrator
Re Your Question"
- Does it come from the universe or even deeper?
- God is love"; therefore his only personal attitude towards the affairs of the universe is always a reaction of divine affection. The Father loves us sufficiently to bestow his life upon us. "He makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust."
- It is wrong to think of God as being coaxed into loving his children because of the sacrifices of his Sons or the intercession of his subordinate creatures, "for the Father himself loves you." It is in response to this paternal affection that God sends the marvelous Adjusters to indwell the minds of men. God's love is universal; "whosoever will may come." He would "have all men be saved by coming into the knowledge of the truth." He is "not willing that any should perish."
- The Creators are the very first to attempt to save man from the disastrous results of his foolish transgression of the divine laws. God's love is by nature a fatherly affection; therefore does he sometimes "chasten us for our own profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness." Even during your fiery trials remember that "in all our afflictions he is afflicted with us."
- God is divinely kind to sinners. When rebels return to righteousness, they are mercifully received, "for our God will abundantly pardon." "I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins." "Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God."
- After all, the greatest evidence of the goodness of God and the supreme reason for loving him is the indwelling gift of the Father -- the Adjuster who so patiently awaits the hour when you both shall be eternally made one. Though you cannot find God by searching, if you will submit to the leading of the indwelling spirit, you will be unerringly guided, step by step, life by life, through universe upon universe, and age by age, until you finally stand in the presence of the Paradise personality of the Universal Father.
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