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April-June, 2016

Love

by Rev. Peggy Rivera, O.M.C.

We say, “I love you,” all the time. I love my children, I love my spouse, I love my friends. We feel like we have lots of love to go around. And for the most part, I think we are sincere about that, but are we? What is love really?

There are different kinds of love, at least on the earth plane. The love we have for our siblings is different than the love we have for our friends. The love we have for our spouses or lover is completely different than the love we have for our children or our parents etc. We compare our love. We feel people have to prove love. We sometimes feel a shortage of love. Well is this really love?

I think we can be sure that if what we are calling love has any demands, it isn’t real Love. It is ego representation. I have seen people spend atrocious amounts of money on someone out of what they call love.

I know it is so hard to discern the difference when we feel so strongly about the subject, whom we are devoting all of our attention on. But if you realize that real Love is not a verb but a state of being, it feels a little easier to recognize. You see when we put demands on Love we are adding fear to the equation. Because we think that if our demands are not met, we experience a lack of Love. Just what the ego revels in.

In my healing process, I recently had to search my own heart about this. In my social circle someone spends a lot of money on someone I love. They go to Europe and many places of entertainment, they buy them expensive gifts. Anything they wish to have is granted to them. I was so upset and I thought how I resented them because I thought it wasn’t fair or right. I thought to myself that they are doing all of this for themselves for their own self-gratification and not out of love for this person. I felt a lack of love. I felt like I wasn’t enough, and totally unloved.

Then I took it to Holy Spirit; with guidance I realized that my belief system was different than theirs and my judgement was showing me where I needed to heal.

I forgot that we are Love. That is what our true Nature is so there is no lack of Love. I realized that I was looking to the ego for justification. And it was so easy to fall into the trap of looking in the wrong place for guidance. It’s true I may be right about their motives. But even if that is the truth, judging them is not helpful.

Whenever we take an ego stance, we will be disappointed in the outcome. Holy Spirit made me aware of the fact that Love doesn’t have a price tag. There is no shortage of Love. It is the air we breathe, and it is our inheritance.

We have no control over the choices others make. We can see them in their Wholeness and remember for them who they really are. Love makes no judgment, no demands. It just is.

Now that I have come to the truth I am free to share the Love that we are freely. It is easier to Love without all the complications the ego would have imposed. I am so thankful for my healing.

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