Suddenly, There Was Love
Sometimes love is oblique. It does not come right out and declare itself. It comes from an angle, and you discover it. Love discovered is like an unexpected smile, just the corner of the mouth turned up, yet it is there, the smile. It is like you find that someone has unexpectedly left a rose on your pillow or held a chair for you. There is a consideration, a courtesy, maybe a common courtesy, and yet you know the great love behind that common courtesy. The courtesy had not been common for you.
One day you discover that you are loved. Despite all your façade, you find out that you are loved by another human being and by Me. You wake up to the fact. “Hey, I am loved. I am really loved. God and someone love me, truly love me. Me.” And your heart dances across the stars.
Love came to you when you were not looking. Suddenly, there was love. It was right before you, a miracle of love given to you freely just when you thought you were unloved forever and anon. Suddenly, love looked you in the eye, and yet the presenter of the love did not declare love, just issued it, just emanated it, just came from a place of love angled like sunlight through a window. And yet this sunlight stayed steady. It was always there. You knew it was there. It did not say, “Look, I love you.” But the love was there, and you knew it, and it was love for you. At last, love for you, love to cherish. Love furrowed its way into your heart and was there to stay. Love made itself known to your trembling heart.
What is breathless about discovering that you are loved is that you see that you are actually capable of being loved AND, most wonderful of all, you discover that you are actually capable of loving as well. One great reason why knowing you are loved is a very good thing is because then you begin to find love stirring in your own heart. There is a thump in your heart that says, “Hey, I can love.”
Love has become reciprocal. Love feeds on itself and grows. Before you know it, you will enter the arena of loving first. Just think of it, to be able to initiate love from your heart to another’s or to all seeming others. Just think of it, to be one who loves, who splurges on love, who comes to know the gracious Indweller of love in your heart. And the love in your heart rays out. The special love directed to and from an individual grows into universal love, and suddenly you are a lover of the Universe. You are a practitioner of love. You have thought you are new to it. Your heart becomes a badge of love, shining in the day and shining in the night. Your badge was polished all the time, even when you didn’t see it.
“Love is mine,” you say now. And then you fling love out as you would fling orange blossoms at a wedding or confetti from a great height on New Year’s Eve. You begin to toss love, and it doesn’t matter where it lands. It matters that you give it. It is the giving love out that matters. Suddenly, you have love to spare.
Hearts like beggars cry out: “Can you spare me a dime?”
And your heart says, “Yes, here, this is for you. Here you are.” And you give dimes of love and diamonds of love and, before you know it, the world is sparkling with love, all because one simple human being loved another.
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