Let Love Be

[majestyjo]

Journey to the Heart

Let Love Be

You can’t control love. It’s impossible. It’s like screaming and screeching and begging a rose to unfold faster, better, or differently.

Love is an energy– an active, living force that runs its threads through all of life, through all of the universe. But we can’t control love. It is not its nature to be controlled. It’s futile to stand with our hands in our pockets and heels dug into the ground saying, I shall control the course of love, or I shall allow another to control me because I’m afraid love will go away.

We can open our hearts and let love run through us. We can open our hearts and receive love. We can open our eyes and see universal love all around us, in places we never saw it before. We can awaken our souls and see that all these experiences have been lessons of love. Learning courage, faith, patience. Learning to love ourselves, when it looked and felt as if no one else did. Learning to express our creativity, express our emotions, and experience joy. Each one has been a lesson of love.

We have learned to let love be and be open to what that is and the new direction it may lead us in. Love is a powerful living force that permeates the universe and funnels through us. We don’t lead it, it leads and guides us.

Honor the guidance of your heart, and you will be honoring the guidance of love.

[majestyjo]

Over the years, I have stated, "I don't know what love is, I just know what it isn't." It is a bit of a defeatists attitude. I need to open my heart to love and let it fall where it may. It can be nurtured and developed, or I can let go and be grateful for the lesson. I believe everything has a purpose. People say that God tests us. I think it is more He teaches us, He is not out to see us fail, He is there to catch us if we fall.

[caressa222]

This is especially true with loving ourselves. It is okay to love yourself. Life changes and we change, but we have the program to deal with life as it comes our way. I have been struggling lately, because I put on some unwanted and certainly not needed weight. I bought some new clothes for the new me, and now it is a stretch to get them to fit.

I know all the sayings, "It isn't what you eat, but what is eating you." I know that it is probably the bagels, but they seem so harmless. It is probably the butter that I put on it and it is sticking to my bones. So glad this program is one day at a time. God and I are working on this.