Where Is Love?

So many times we've heard, "you are looking for love in all the wrong places," yet what are the right places? 

First of all, when you are made of the very particles that are love, how can you miss love? God made you in its image. God is love. So you, too, are made of love. Look in the mirror for love. You are the beginning and end of your day. You must treat yourself with kindness and compassion. 

Secondly, like attracts like in the universe. It's law. So, if you recognize your goodness and foster it, you will also attract the very same thing that you are. If you are compassionate, you will attract compassionate beings. If you are generous, generosity will follow you to your home.

Third, Love is a peaceful state of mind. It doesn't lust for gold, other's belongings, other's bodies. Love is still and at rest and at peace with the universe. So, it is our indigenous duty to discover the peace that created us and exists all around us through the practice of meditation and quiet or prayer. This is how you bring the humanness that you are to the spiritual--daily, as an offering.

"I know that I don't understand my human self. I want to be a better person, a better friend, a better lover. Help me make those parts of my humanity that bend toward earth, lift and spread toward the sky--toward the light of Your Beingness. I know then, that I will bloom into the beauty that You intended!" Love you, my friends.