What words can begin to speak of all the love in My heart for you? The biggest word is not big enough. The loftiest thought is not high enough. What words can convey the depth and breadth of love that I hold you in? Even the word love cannot. It tries. It means to, and yet words do not have the strength to convey all the love that there is to convey. And, yet, love is conveyed. You know love when you see it. You know love when you don't see it as well.
What an emptiness there is with love unperceived. Why would anyone not want to perceive love when love abounds and there is nothing to equal it? Who would miss out in love? And, yet, love is too often missed out on. My children have found deserts in the sand where oases abide. Sometimes My children have disenfranchised themselves of love, scratching it off their list, convinced that love somehow is vagrant from them, as if love, the very substance of life could be absent from them! So surrounded by love are you that sometimes you simply don't see.
You may be looking for love to come from one direction when love is multi-directioned. First of all, there is the love within you that longs to reveal itself. This is the love you want to see above all. This is the love in your heart that gets stirred. You want to ladle out the burgeoning love within your own heart. It has been hard for you to keep it in. It has been hard because the love in your heart wants to go out, and you have constricted it. This causes pain. Your love must be free to be born, and you have kept it back, extending its due date. You owe all the love in your heart the courtesy of being allowed out now. You have kept your big love within your heart on a short leash for too long. Become as good at giving love as you have been at holding it back. Beloveds, you have become quite suave at holding love back. You even have a flourish about it. Be less sophisticated and more desirous of giving out love like lollipops. Give out your love right and left. Give out your love.
If you feel any kind of tightness in your heart, now is the time to loosen it. Never mind the past. You don't have to sequester your love any longer. It has been sequestered enough. Develop other skills, beloveds. Develop the skill of letting go. Free your heart to its destiny. You have given enough caution to your heart. Now is the time to give your heart permission to be what it is. No longer cover up your heart. There is no love gate, beloveds. Love is not to be corralled. It is to be given. Love is not meant, never meant, absolutely is not meant to be covered up. It is not meant to be sanctioned. Love is simply meant to be and to be given. It is given from one heart to another. More accurately, love, no matter what its particular focus, is given to all. It may land here and there, yet love is given everywhere.
You may water certain flowers in your garden. You point the hose here and there, and yet all the water finds its way to all that grows in your garden. Water can't keep itself to one spot. Love is the same. Shower your love with abandon, and your love will reach everywhere love can reach, and love can reach everywhere, certainly further than the mind can see.
Water the deserts, beloved, and they will no longer be deserts. Aridness will become a river of love, and We will all canoe on it.