Letting Love Flow

This post is for people who have wanted to receive love from a particular person in a particular way at a particular time.

For example, there have been times in my life when I wanted someone to support who I was being and what I was doing at a particular time. Sometimes the other person made it abundantly clear that it wasn’t okay for me to be myself or to do what I wanted to do in that moment. For some reason this person was not able to give me the love, acceptance, and support that I craved at  that time.

As I remember these moments from my past, I can recognize that a couple of things were going on.

In those moments in the past, I decided that I was going to lower my expectations for love. I was going to try to change who I really was and what I really wanted. I hoped that this would allow me to get more love the next time around from those people or other people. In essence, I allowed a layer of defense to form over my heart to protect myself from getting hurt in the future. And I did this again and again as I accepted each interpretation of my lovability to act as a reflection of my actual worth. These deposits accumulated around my heart like a wall, forming layers over a period of years. As I remembered this process that I had allowed to happen, I realized that I had chosen to believe that this was my only way to experience the feelings I wanted to feel. Oh, how wrong I was!

I also remembered that all around me in each and every one of those moments was an infinite field or sea of of Love that was always available and ready to give me the sense of love and belonging I so desired. But in the narrowness or specificity of my desire for love from particular people at particular times, this vast ocean of Love was as if it did not exist. I was a person who was rich in love but believed I was poor. I had all of the food I could want at my fingertips, and yet I was going hungry. I felt thirsty even though there was wonderful freshwater raining down upon my head all of the time.

I am so thankful that I have realized that I do live in a vast sea of Love, always ready and willing to do its thing whenever I let it in. How do I know this? For over a decade, whenever I have truly desired for this love to come into my life, it has. I have never been disappointed when I have asked. Never. It has always come, and I have felt its coming, sometimes like a wave and sometimes like a flame, but always it has come to me.

May we all become people who let Love in and allow it to have its way with us. May we let Love flow, dissolving and carrying away our dead, hard, and dry defenses. As it does this work, it also gives us and all we touch new life. When you let this Power of Love flow, the walls will come down, and there will eventually be nothing to stop you from giving and receiving love just as the skies, the rivers, and the seas abundantly share the water that makes life on earth possible.

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