Love & fear in the Great Forever … (11/10/15)
During our many months of journeying through life — long chains of days composed of innumerable instants short yet sparkling; we are in touch with Death all along the way. And the reason we are ever connected with Death is because we have all known real LOVE … For we have all searched for Love — and found that Love — and lost that Love — and mourned that Love lost — and let that mourning eventually fade … And then we all have risen to look for Love anew. And the more we choose to do so, the more purely we do so — the less we do so for our own pleasure or comfort or security, and the more we do so to bring Joy & Peace to the places where Joy & Peace are not.
And eventually, if we choose to Love enough, we come to know true, selfless Love — and we sink into the reality that we ARE that Love — and that we can manifest the same in every single moment of our lives; even in times of sadness — even in moments of fear — even in flashes of anger — even when surrounded by death and suffering; ESPECIALLY when surrounded by death and suffering …
For it is in these moments — moments when all seems lost and the Sun is gone and we feel as though it might never return and that a smile will never again touch our lips — it is in these moments of darkness & shadow that our Love is both most precious and most powerful. For it is in these moments that we are most needed … It is in these moments that we can bring real Hope to those in despair, it is in these moments that we can bring real Solace to those in pain, and it is in these moments that we can bring real Joy to those steeped in sorrow.
Indeed, it is in moments such as these that time stretches beyond the horizon and lengthens through the heavens … It is in moments such as these when we choose to “Love anyway” that the regrets of the past & the worries for the future completely fade away, and we are left fully and completely in the Now — fully and completely in this one, present moment; the one moment that is — this one moment when time has no meaning and where Death holds no sway. There is nothing left to suffer, for there is nothing left to which to cling or for which to yearn. There is only Peace in the current Current and our Love, fully immersed within its flow.
This is the place where the walls we have built around our Souls shatter & tumble … This is the time when we reach out through “healthy boundaries” barbed and “self-defenses” soured … This is where we choose to Care anyway — and thus this is where we defeat Death. For this is where we experience the Truth that Love is all there is — that Love is the reason we are here — that Love given purely cannot be dimmed or destroyed — that Love given purely lives forever …
And we come to remember that it is Death & Loss that allow such a Love to be given; and that it is Death & Loss that allow such a Love to live.
Long live Death … Long live Love.
(~ inspired by Nanja Naisah)
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