In a world which we created for ourselves, we love, experience love, and learn different levels of love when expressing ourselves in different ways. The definition I found of love covers many different experiences such as affection, emotion, and virtue that include kindness and compassion. While love is all of the above, I want to search the essence of what love is supposed to be, the very nature and forms of love that’s in my
life. The inward feelings of love, which will never properly be expressed in the
written word is wonderful, it breaks down all the barriers that life presents
to us. We learn, we express ourselves, and the physical and spiritual side of
our nature expands and improves with what we learn. The spiritual side of us
works to correct the nature of sharing, feeling, and giving, which we call love
in our way. It is in our very essence to give, reach out, to share, and to draw
near to someone. In all of this, we do make mistakes, the feelings part is
wonderful, or even deadly in building on what we learn; we just don’t always
build on what make us happy. Sometimes we settle for what we have knowing it is
not actual love but just getting ourselves by, walking a path with no end, and
it’s a problem, and we know it.
My Definition of Love
Love is an expression of feelings that can be both Physical
(an outward expression) and Spiritual (inward feelings that both focus inward
and outward that only you feel). To me, expressions of love are many, and are
as varied in feelings as there are people to experience them, and the love I
speak of is from my experiences. My experiences, they cover what I have felt,
expressions of love I have seen, and a love that over the years have taught me
about heartache, and gifts of love that I could not have imagined possible
happening.
Yes, we love, we experience love at different levels as we learn, see, and express ourselves in what we feel as love.
Love at Thirteen
When I was about thirteen years old, a cousin of a friend of mind came to spend the summer with them, we met and most of the summer we spent a lot of time together. Summer was not long enough, she had to return home, later that day, that night, and weeks later, I did not sleep. The first few days after she left I cried, it lasted a long time, it was not as today there would be no talking to her on the telephone, we were not old enough for that. Was it love, emotions, I know it was powerful, so much so that I have not felt anything like it since.
My Father’s/// and a Gift of Life
I once asked Our Father/// to give me a child, some time
later he did, and I was so happy, and now my happiness can’t be measured. I did
not stipulate when, in what way, whether it should be a boy or a girl, I simply
asked for a child, and now I give thanks every day for God/// gave me what I
asked for in the way He/// did. In the sentences before this one I expressed
how much I love the gift of life God gave me, gave the world, yet I did not use
the word “love” specifically in it. Sometimes we don’t use the exact word “love”
but we mean it in what we do, in what we show the world, and how we live one
with another, no matter who they are where they come from.
Love and the Path We Walk
So many of us walk a path full of caring, helping others in
every way possible that includes a hand up, and the giving of one’s self to
enable life in another. I guess I could take the rest of my life trying to
share my experiences and what I see and feel concerning love, but each of us
can do that. Someone I love on a particular level is Mother Teresa and Nelson
Mandela. It was their experiences in life that led them to where they were, and
the wonderful lives they led because of what they believed, and that still
leads Nelson Mandela today. These two started a path that sometimes led them
into trouble, but when love beyond your own power lifts you up instead of
letting you fall, you know whose hands you are in. They were given powers
beyond themselves for their task, and that is how we all are, we have that
power available to us in our defining moments in time. Mother Teresa would see
year after year, people in need seemingly to never end, and Mandela would sit
in prison year after year with no idea he would be president of the very
country that imprisoned him. This was all do to powers above and beyond them,
the same power we give names to such as in my case “Father///”, or God///, and
many other religions have their names. Names or names that we give to what we
believe, but the power of what works with us is undeniable and faithful to all
of us no matter the name.
The Love of Life and Peace
This particular need for Love and Peace we have is no less
powerful or important than any other type or level of love we might feel,
because without it many do not get the chance to experience the love in its
many forms. Never the chance to love and share love between people in an
experience they can only measure, love such as parents to children, or children
who will never get the chance to know love in any form at all.
My Path
I cannot say what my path in life will be exactly, I know
when I talk too much I am always forced to face it. We are challenged when we
dare to say what we will do in the future, well I am going to love people, no
matter who they are or where they are. No matter what else I make a mistake on,
such as trying to be a writer, I will always care and love people wherever I
find them. I know that love means many things on many levels, but it is also
just one thing, a life of living, I hope it is my life. We talk about love with
our voices low hardly being heard, I guess I am just saying what I have to say
aloud.
We are in a Process of Learning that Never Ends
When we understand the simplicity of love, we will then know
that our learning processes will never be over, the physical body will return
to the earth, and the spirit energy within us will move on to a higher state.
We don’t need to be one or the other, just care, make that step toward caring,
and love will magnify every single thing we do in life and beyond. We cannot
fail, but the world gives much, and when we lose sight of what we are, we fill
ourselves with earthly wants and needs. Sometimes we move around, or even step
over those on this path of our own making, and we blind ourselves from our
spiritual side, you can tell when it’s not right but you ignore it. I know it
is hard to look past the physical side of life, but when you do the simple
things such as caring about someone that’s right in the front of you, all the
other things become easy.
Care about something, love someone, I am a bit behind but I will catch-up.
Edmond