This is the Money, Love, Sex and God blog but not necessarily in that order. However, if you’ve been a reader for quite sometime, you will notice that my love posts are pretty rare. It’s a subject that I feel I should both stay away from but also rush straight to it. How can I avoid the subject forever if it’s 25% of what my blog represents.
So today you get a rare treat because I’m going to talk about love. Two of my favorite authors have some interesting things to say about love which I feel are intricately related.
Neale Donald Walsch of Conversations With God says that one should enter a relationship not to see what one can get but to see what one can give. I’ve rarely witnessed many relationships like the one above and I guess it’s why I’ve witnessed so many frail relationships in my life. If one entered a relationship only to see what he or she could give to another would not he or she also be giving to themselves? Also, wouldn’t the other person be inclined to give more instead of less if they saw the other was always giving unconditionally? I think the answer to both questions is a resounding “YES.”
Anthony De Mello who wrote a book call The Way To Love says that too many of us are addicted to what has already been created instead of being in the moment to create another glorious moment anew. What he’s saying is that if you strive to create the best time every moment you are with another then you can never have a so called bad experience. Wow! Is that possible? I think so. However, if you continue to bring all the past moments to the present what happens to the present? It’s lost and filled with memories of the past.(“good” or “bad”) Don’t get addicted to this moment because it’s gone in a flash. Seek only to program this moment and the next with the best experience you can possibly muster and I think you’ll be glad you did.
I feel that I have performed poorly in my relationships of love because I have neglected to do more of what Walsch and De Mello suggest. Sometimes I wonder what life would be like for me in the arena of love if I would heed such wisdom. I know all of this magnificent love still lies dormant inside of me because I witness it from time to time protruding it’s big red heart.
Somewhere somebody loves me I’m sure of that. I’m thankful for such love. I realize I need to love more as I feel I’ve become a bit jaded about the whole idea of love.(which is just a story in my head) More on how this came to be in a later post.
That’s my spin on love.
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