Radiate Love, and Keep Your Integrity

Heavenletter #3367 Published on: February 12, 2010
God said:

I tell you to love, and yet We cannot define love. Love is so vast, beloveds, it defies description.

Let Us talk a little about love, what it is and what it is not, and how it appears in different lights.

It is natural to love. It is natural for a baby to love. He doesn't know the word, and he already loves.

It is natural for the mother to love her baby. It is unnatural not to love.

Yet, you may ask: "Am I to love the one who litters Your beautiful world, God? Am I to love people who murder Your beautiful children? Am I to love thieves? Am I to love hijackers? Am I to love haters?"

Love does not mean condoning. You do not have to like what a murderer has done, nor do you have to pretend it's okay. You do not have to make a show of your love. You do not have to marry the one who has hurt the world. Do you catch My drift? You do not have to become palsy-walsy. You do not have to go up and hug him.

You owe to yourself to let go of the angst in your own heart. In your heart, have absence of fear. You do not have to punish. You do not have to go into the gutter. In matters like this, I will reason with the offender.

You do not owe love, beloveds. You are love. Love is not a payment you exact from yourself. You do not have to embrace a murderer. You do not have to pat the murderer on the back and say, "There, there. It's all right." Nor are you not to bless him from your heart. You are not to become a snob.

Love takes many shapes. A mother who loves also teaches her child. As the child grows, everything he does is not adorable. The mother loves, yet she does not say: "Whatever you do, it's okay because I love you." The mother loves, and she tells the child he must pay for whatever he buys. The mother loves, and she tells the child that he must respect others. The mother takes responsibility. Because she loves, she takes responsibility.

To love does not mean to be dishonest. To love does not mean to be irresponsible. Nor does to love mean to be holier than thou. You would give water to everyone who is thirsty. That is love, yet you do not become bedfellows with everyone who is thirsty.

You are not to become vindictive, nor do you uphold an unsavory act. Do not assail the person nor do you have to hold everyone on your lap. You do not adopt everyone.

When I say to love, I do not mean you are to erase yourself. You too have rights. You do not rush up to all shoppers at the mall and put your arms around them. Why would you? Because they are shoppers?

Sometimes people have to earn your love. Your personal love is worth something, and it is to mean something. It is not that you are to love at all costs.

If someone beats you, it is not love that makes you stay to be beaten again.

If someone comes up to you with a knife, you do not have to rush into his arms to prove that you are a loving person.

If you see someone with a knife raised to another, do not take the time to love the wielder of the knife.

Know the difference between personal love and universal love. Radiate love, and keep your integrity.

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On February 12th, 2010 Emilia says:

How is it that we have misunderstood love so much. Maybe also because of St. Valentine day.
We are not to be vindictive, but we are not asked to condone. "Sometimes people have to earn your love. Your personal love is worth something, and it is to mean something. It is not that you are to love at all costs." Yes, the trick is to leave those people to You.
Beyond that, there is "universal love" that we radiate, without any object.
I would like to say that now it is clearer to me, but it is not so.

Now Love is clearer to me...

On February 12th, 2010 Shanthi says:

Yes for me too, now Love is clearer,
I understand that when we are in front of a situation like violence or attack, we have to stay in universal Love in our heart but we have to move away ,
is it correct ? or how can we change what is happening in front of us ?

What do you think about this ?

Shanthi

what to do?

On February 12th, 2010 Emilia says:

What I have come to understand, dear Shanthi, is that we do not choose "to stay" in universal love, because we already "are" it.
There is nothing we have " to do" to be universal love. Only by being aware of the Love we already are, we remove all covers to our core.
We can move away from a difficult situation and difficult people, yes, but also in this case there is nothing we can actively do to change what is. We can just withdraw our attention from that situation and free our heart.
We are responsable for ourselves and God for all of us.

Beloved Shanthi, that is a

On February 12th, 2010 Gloria Wen... says:

Beloved Shanthi, that is a great question you bring up.

It is possible to change a situation with our love. I remember how Peace Pilgrim was in a car with a man who was going to attack her. She talked to him, and his hostility melted away. I don't remember what she said. Of course, it may not have been what she said but her consciousness itself. Whatever she said, it was her truth, not just good words to say.

I don't think God is telling us to always run away. I think in this Heavenletter, He is making the point that unconditional love doesn't meant that we don't have integrity. Unconditional love doesn't mean we love everything that goes on or pretend that we do.

"If you see someone with a knife raised to another, do not take the time to love the wielder of the knife." Maybe there is something we can do.

"If someone comes up to you with a knife, you do not rush into his arms to prove that you are a loving person."

"You do not owe love, beloveds. You are love. Love is not a payment you exact from yourself."

My personal take is that God is telling us to be real. He isn't telling us to always run away. I think he is also saying that when, with a friend, for example, and we're not getting along very well, it may be that a time has come when we want to make friends with those we feel more compatible with. .

to run away?

On February 12th, 2010 Emilia says:

You are right, Gloria, never " run away". But "move away" means leaving the past behind. A situation or a person turn to be "difficult" when you have already tried to do something unsuccessfully. Then God says to move on, to turn in a different direction, to keep walking, to live it to Him. Not giving attention to what we dislike, I have come to understand, is the most efficacious way to change things. While, engaging in it, is the best way to reinforce it. If we see "someone with a knife raised to another" maybe we have given too much attention to good and evil, to victims and murderers.
Just to point out I do not use to run away nor suggest it.

You are absolutely right,

On February 12th, 2010 Gloria Wen... says:

You are absolutely right, beloved Emilia! I see that my comment came after your comment -- it was meant to appear after Shanthi's comment. But, anyway, do you remember Fiddler on the Roof? The main character was always talking to God, and would always say: "On the other hand..." Loving you, Gloria

Know the difference between

On February 12th, 2010 pitta says:

Know the difference between personal love and universal love

Oh yes, I think the difference between us and our awareness is all here

Is this Heavenletters a definition of real neutrality?

On February 13th, 2010 Normand Bo... says:

It is indeed a difficult question and even more, responses will probably be circumstancial or contextual.
There is certainly a prerequisite "state of heart" and "state of mind".
Few days ago, I was waiting for the train, sitting on an outdoor station bench and three "aboriginal" people (they could have been white) were coming screaming at people and trying to scare them. I just had the feeling that they would come to me. I also had the feeling that I had to go through this experience and that I had to stay where I was, sitting still and control my panic at all costs. And it happened. One of the aboriginals just stopped in front of me and stood about one foot from me. I had my eyes closed and kept them closed for few seconds. Then I opened them, looked at the aboriginal for few seconds and closed my eyes again. I knew he was still staring at me, looking at something he could take from me (my watch, my money, my shopping bag...) or simply aggressing me physically. But, after a while, he decided to move away. Not a single word was said during this "exchange".

I just realized more deeply that fear attracts fear and aggression. Fear and aggression respond to each other. And I did not try to "send" love to the "aggressor" because there is no such a thing as love combatting evil. Playing the game of love against aggression is feeding the combat, feeding duality. So I just tried to be self contained in my own inner "universal love/light", radiate it and waited to see what would happen.

So with this Heavenletters, I just have the feeling that developping Neutrality is not not-taking-position. It is having a unified and integrated vision. Integrity has something to do with a prerequiste attitude, a state of being. Then it has to be tested on actual circumstances.

dear heavenley father, am

On February 13th, 2010 carmen (not verified) says:

dear heavenley father,
am just onley thankfulnes of your masseges
and your advice your masseges like a bread we eat
evryday i can not say enywords of my openion
it always help somuch your advice to as and put
inside in our heart and mind evryday our life,
thank heavenley father of your advice,
love and light

1 Heavenletter Haiku for

On February 16th, 2010 Alohalight... says:

1 Heavenletter Haiku for you

Hello Friends,

God said you are love
And love takes many forms there
That bless with your heart

Love, Light and Aloha!

 

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