Present And Real

Doing something, doing everything, in the name of love long enough creates a philosophy of living that goes beyond discussion and begins to take on marrow and bone, flesh and blood.

Finding a way to turn all actions into an act of love, begins eliminating unpleasant actions.

I am one of those lucky people who love to burn. I have this intense love of people just built into me. I am happiest when I am madly in love. When I have a Beloved before me that I can serve and honor, dream and speak and write about; when I can do everything in the name of the Beloved, there are few shadows in my life.

Shadows do appear though. There is no way to avoid them. For me, learning to love the shadows because the one blocking the light is the Beloved, leads the way for living in the light. It becomes just another way of adoring the Beloved.

After a while, a lifetime of living this way is like anything else one does for a very long time. It becomes a part of me as integral as breathing. For me it is the breath that keeps me centered, allows me to re-member the beautiful part of this manifestation I call life and bring it into a wholeness that surrounds me most of the time.

For me the Beloved is always present and real.