Loving Presence
It has been a while since I wrote anything about Love. Someone remarked once …”oh no, not love again.” At the time, I kind of laughed. This week, hearing about the situation in Buffalo New York, I decided that perhaps you can’t write about Love too often. Maybe a new angle on it would be helpful. A spiritual text I study states that “Everything is Love or a cry for Love.” Yes, I said everything.
As I mentioned a blog or two ago.. we can frequently treat Love as an object. We love our families (hopefully), our home, our hobbies – and of course our pets. This is a beautiful aspect of love, and it is the tip of the iceberg. Loving presence rests on the state of Love – the energetic vibration of love – that requires no object on which to focus; nor does it require one to ignite the state that we are already anchored in.
Like other things that provoke us to look externally at how to be happy – this one might take a little practice. Once you begin to realize how easy it is to flip the switch from stress to loving presence – from disappointment to loving presence- from worry to loving presence…you get the idea.
So here are the steps:
When I apply this practice to situations in the world – I give myself a reminder that Love is always a possibility, and it is always present- I only need to focus to shift my perception and see what is mine to do – if anything.
Please give it a try – we all need more Love in our hearts and minds for these times.
