Realizing God's Will Is Oneness

Only Love Is Real

Sometimes there are parts of life that seem bleak.  Of course, there are those times we all don’t feel loved or appreciated.  There are times when we don’t seem to have it all together and even small problems seem daunting, things just aren’t going our way.  These times seem different from others when we feel happy and life is smooth sailing.  Why do some days we wake up happy and some days sort of feeling off-kilter from which we can’t seem to recover?  For some the days of feeling all is not well stretch into a period of time which seems to grow bleak and unbearable, and that is primarily what they focus on.  For some, the unbearable life is ended.

Yesterday at my weekly prayer group, someone mentioned a nearby high school where a sophomore cheerleader had very recently commited suicide.  Someone’s daughter knew the cheerleader’s younger sister.  We prayed and sent love and light to all involved.  The mention of her suicide brought to mind the funeral I had attended last spring for my sister-in-law’s nephew, a nineteen year old’s suicide.

What impressed me so much at that time was the minister’s message to all the young people present.  The parents’ minister from their church would not officiate at the funeral because of the suicide.  The “fill-in” minister spoke to the hearts of the young people, offering a beautiful message of hope, understanding and encouragement to go beyond grief to healing and looking at the purpose of life - which is love.  He was very wise.  Afterward I told him how much he had helped the family and all the young people present by his inspired message about the importance of remembering love.  He had focused on the love of the young man’s life, family and friends, not the tragedy.

The young people seemed so hungry to make sense of their friend’s death.  It was unexpected and puzzling to them.  But, some of us make the ego so real and feel so tormented by it that we simply can’t stand it and want out.  Now!  Right now!  Some remain living in body but feel dead when they have lost hope, and feel only sorrow.  What difference about whether the body moves or not, rages or not, arms itself with weapons to kill or carries flowers of grief.  What is real?  Not all the coffins and flowers at funeral homes crowded with mourners, not the feelings of despair, grief, abandonment and guilt, and not the questions that seem to have no answers.  What is real?  Only the love present is real.

In the face of seeming tragedies, the product of despair, what can we affirm as real?  Only love.  That is all.  The only thing real about the young man’s life and funeral was the love of all the teens and twenty-somethings for their friend who died so suddently.  The love of his parents, brother, family, and friends.  And the love for them.  As the family and friends of the young man were led to remembr love instead of despair, their lives were forever changed.  I know the family has been compelled to face their own beliefs of the meaning of life.  No doubt the young man’s death compelled many young people to look at the meaning of life and the meaning of love.  The young man helped many to remember to open their minds to God’s presence.  Instead of being condemned that day, his life was honored, his love remembered.

As I and others spoke words of encouragement and comfort to all the family I know so well, and as I watched the procession of young people pay their respects, listened to the eulogies and minister, I was taken with the awareness of Love’s Presence in the room.  It was powerfully affecting.  It was healing.  As I look back at the event, I always look at the reality of the love present.  I do not remember the grief and tears as much as the overwhelming presence of love and appreciation of love.  I had spent holiday dinners with this young man.  He was loving and loved.  His presence of love made a difference.  Sometimes we cannot understand these bleak times of ego despair.  Perhaps he heard the Call of Love so strongly he felt he had to go.  I cannot understand and there is no need to try.  I content myself with knowing and remembering only love.

I send the same remembering to all my brothers and sisters, young and old, who attack the body/ego for the last time of their body life.  As I remember the love in one, I remember it in all.  I remember their true Identity with them now.  We are one in Love.  That is all that is important.  And I know that my remembering love helps, extending love helps.  Extending love always helps.

I write this to honor every life.  No matter the circumstances or events, every life is filled with love.  In remembering only the love, we honor our brothers and sisters in Christ.  We can honor those departed and the living in body equally.  No matter what illusion of sorrow or despair seems present, let us honor every life by remembering that only the love about them is real.  All are one in God.  Today I am called to remember to honor oneness of love in all true living things.  Please join with me in honoring the oneness we share with true life.

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