I attended a Unity retreat last week in Hendersonville, NC. It was wonderful being in the mountains…relaxing, learning and enjoying. Our guest musician was Eddie Watkins, Jr. His song What Would Love Do Now? was the theme for the week. In the song is the lyric:
“Everything is either an act of love or a cry for love…”
I am still singing this line. And I am wondering about my own actions and my own thoughts being either an act of love or a cry for love. In other words…am I coming from love inside of me, which is acceptance, peace, calm, joy, understanding, caring, perfection, wholeness…or am I coming from ‘no love’, which is fear, lack, doubt, complacency, exhaustion, blame, anxiety, depression, grief, hopelessness, judgment, stress, anger?
Is it possible to believe that if I am not coming from love that I am crying for love…that I am craving love…that I am wanting to know love? I think so. Charles Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity movement has this to say about love:
“Love is an inner quality that sees good everywhere and in everybody. It insists that all is good, and by refusing to see anything but good it causes that quality to finally appear uppermost in itself, and in all things.”
You might ask yourself…with every thought and every action…am I coming from that inner quality that sees and insists on good? And if not, am I craving that same good to rise up in me…so that I can feel my own wholeness, strength and potential?
If you find that you are crying for love, consider it an invitation to pause, pray or meditate. Take a deep breath and simply be in the moment. Stop repeating the story that supports ‘no love’ (see examples listed above). Take a moment to watch the birds or look at the ocean. Follow your breath in and out. Do what you can and know that it is enough.
Much, much love
Paula
