A Love Note

Upstairs in my home, I’m writing this to you from the room with a view of the Coburg Hills about 7 miles north.  Each week is a turn of the wheel of life and rife with potential sparkling moments of insight.  Sometimes I gather in one of those insights.  Often it is nothing brand new. It is like looking one more time in the same direction into the night sky and discovering a constellation that the turning of time reveals. 

Lately, I’ve come ‘round to self nurturing.  This has to do with noticing thoughts and feelings as they pass and responding to them in ways that tap the energy of “love yourself.”  What would it be to authentically love myself rather than being driven? 

A few things come into my awareness right away:

• Enjoying life. 
• Making a check list of what I love to do and be. Getting started on that list.  
• Carving the inner sculpture of my life with a tender imagination filled with “aaahs.”
• Living with both feet in the present moment. 
• Stretching out beyond my aura field and pouring love notes of happiness into the hearts of others especially those from whom I’ve disconnected. 
• Imagining my being as a radiant golden light. 

How much effort does it take to create and experience a life of being in love?  None.  Effort is the outgrowth of the subconscious acceptance that life is difficult and dogmatically framed by ceaselessly trying to get something one believes is lacking.   

Being in love is not a reward of effort.  It is reveling in seeing the inner constellation of life’s simple gifts already in our midst.  Look more closely.  It’s there.   

As I look out to the Coburg Hills, I feel the wheel of life has turned one more time and unfurled for me the clarity of love’s presence once again.  I pass on this love note to you.  May you be open to receive and cherish it and pass it on to others in the hallways of your heart. 

In gratitude, Ed