Some Thoughts on Love for Valentine's Day

Feb. 13th, 2021

We’re born to be lovers: lovers of life, lovers of all people, lovers of this magnificent and holy creation entrusted to our care, lovers of wisdom and truth, lovers of joy and imagination. As beings of spirit born into the physical plane, it is our true and divine nature, our essence and birthright, to know love in this way, to experience it, to BE it. In “new thought” (aka re-packaged ancient wisdom combined with the amazing discoveries of metaphysical science), this is what it means to be in our “right mind”. 

Valentine’s Day is a chance to share the experience true love – not just with that special someone, or with those closest to us, but with ALL, because true love knows no bounds. It is an energy, a consciousness, and it doesn’t stop at any man-made border, or at the surface of the physical bodies that create the illusion of difference and separation between ourselves and others, or between ourselves and the natural world of which we are a part. It is both within and all around us, always and in ALL ways. 

It is our gift, and also our great responsibility, to learn to see in this way. I believe this is the power of prayer; the intuitive knowledge of that divine essence, powered by our thoughts, our intentions and our actions, that can bring healing, forgiveness, wholeness, joy and re-unification into being in this world. When we are in alignment with our God-self or higher self, as a part of the loving and co-creative nature of life itself, all things are truly possible. We know ourselves and all other beings as worthy, brilliant and beautiful expressions of a loving Creator. To my understanding, this is not ego, but true humility; to see ourselves as neither above or below anyone or anything, yet essential to the whole, interwoven fabric of creation. I believe this is what Jesus and many great prophets throughout the ages came to teach us and are still trying to teach us. 

But when we as individuals use this power to perpetuate fear, or to cause harm, or ill, or self-gratification or ego-centered grandiosity at the expense of any other, based on false judgements or notions of separation, superiority, entitlement, or dominance, we ALL lose, and the experiences of suffering and lack will continue. Such is the nature of connection (vs. the perception of “duality”, as my friend David Arnholter spoke of so beautifully in his reading of the science of Mind text from Ernest Holmes last Sunday), and such is the law of cause and effect in our world. What we see with our hearts and minds is what we create and experience, be it unity or division. 

We can learn to use our thoughts wisely and well, to create a life worthy of who we truly are as children of the most high. We can allow illusions of fear and separation to fall away, and feel the presence and power of love which is always there. To truly do this on a collective level would immediately bring peace, love, understanding, and a desire to heal all suffering, both within and around us. We could know ourselves and all people, all beings as the living, breathing expression and manifestation of God (or whatever name we choose to call that magnificent author of creation), even despite our continued belief in separation. We could create a world in which true justice and equality were not just far off, fanciful notions belonging to one political party or a bunch of unrealistic, “pie-in-the-sky” dreamers, but the dominant consciousness of our world, THIS world…   

Why else speak the words of any religion? Why say, in the Lord’s prayer of Christianity, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven…” if we don’t believe and know this to be possible with all our hearts and minds? These are words of faith, but only if we have faith that this is, in fact, God’s will and intention for us. 

While in one sense, these ideas are quite simple, I do not suggest or presume in any way that they are easy. I struggle with my fears, my own judgements of those I label “other”, my own ideas of separation and duality, of lack or limitation. But on this Valentine’s Day, my prayer for all of us is to awaken to these ideas a little more each day, to know our own worth and the worth of others, to feel a deep love and reverence for this gift of life and to learn to use it wisely and well, finding our wealth and our treasure from within, and sharing it without limit. 

Happy Valentine’s Day to you, with much love, from the bottom of my heart!!

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