Love is a Choice - Which Will You Choose?
Getting to IT
Love is Always a Choice
Drowsily I open my eyes and hear - listen to the sound of love.
I raise my head a bit and listen. I hear my husband feeding our cats.
The warmth of love spreads, and I smile.
Later, after my morning routine of being with my husband and preparing his breakfast and work lunch, I lie down and fall in and out of sleep and meditation.
In my restful state I hear, follow the love.
I see in my mind’s eye a shadowy figure. I follow him.
He stops. I stop.
He is standing on something. It looks like a block of some sort.
I hear It’s a choice.
I understand that he is talking about choosing to share love or choosing to withhold love.
I hear, that babies naturally love.
But sometimes babies become adults who learn to protect their love.
Remember to follow the love or disregard the love is always a choice.
Which will you choose?
Wow, quite a message!
Now what? A deeper look perhaps?
Okay, here it goes.
I want to choose love, heck, I want to be love. I want to unconditionally love all, at all times.
But… I’m human!
Sometimes I fall short.
Sometimes I want to be right, prove a point, or hold onto an old hurt.
Ever been there? Justified with your actions?
It’s a sweet spot - for the moment.
I laugh out loud. Am I trying to justify to my meditative inner friend that I’m human, and that’s why I can’t always choose love?
Hmm…
Interesting that my deeper look begins with what I want and how I can’t help, but fall short of it.
A real-life issue pops into my mind, much like a piece of burnt toast pops up from the toaster. Too long in the heat. Or in my case too long in the hurt.
Evidence of my falling-short humanness.
Um, where does that leave me (us)? Back to the drawing board?
Yes! Always yes.
So, what if I (we) fall short? So, what!?
Back to my hurt. Oh, how I want to hang onto it. But what will that get me?
With some resistance, I begin breathing deeply.
I know to move forward I need to get to the love
I begin with the Ho’o Pono Pono prayer. (Hawaiian prayer) I envision the person, and I continue. (Please note that when saying the Ho’o Pono Pono prayer you are saying it to your Higher Self (I like to call my Higher Self - I AM Presence) while holding the person or situation in mind.
·I love you
·I’m so sorry (A friend of mine taught me this addition – for forgetting who I am.)
·Please forgive me
·Thank you
I repeat it three times. I feel some relief.
My resistance still lingering, determinedly, I continue with this:
·I envision and breathe pure love and light coming from Divine into my heart. (I see the love and light as a ray of white and pink.)
·Next, I envision the person in front of me, and I breathe the pure love and light from my heart to hers.
·I then say, I bless you with pure love and light. I bless you with pure Source energy. (This blessing comes, in part, from Christie Marie Sheldon.)
My shoulders relax. My hurt quiets.
I understand there is more healing to come. I understand I may need to repeat these practices many times.
But as my meditative friend says - Love is always a choice.
So, I’ll keep up with my practices until my hurt subsides. I’ll keep coming back to the love.
You (like me) can choose to keep coming back to the love even when you’re drowning in the muck of your discordant emotions.
You may not feel it, but the love is there. It may be buried, but it’s there.
You can choose to make your way through the best you can.
And the best you can…is enough. Because love is on the other side.
Inner Joy Compass Prompt:
Think of a situation, a person, or a habit - anything you want to feel at peace with - then breathe deeply and ask, “How can I bring love into this?”
If you’re led to one of the above practices and would like some supportive direction, please listen to my latest Fiery Truths:
Ho’o Pono Pono – Peaceful Forgiveness or
A Love Blessing – Sharing an Act of Love and Light
Thank you for being here with me.
With all my Love,
Gloria