I think one of the main reasons we come, as spirits, into this physical realm, is to feel love through our hearts. A good friend recently said, “It’s never wrong to love,” and I agree with him. But sometimes love hurts, too. There’s not one of you out there who doesn’t know this, who hasn’t experienced it first hand. As I’ve said before on this blog, love happens and love can complete itself. This does not make a person “bad” for having, quite literally, a change of heart. We can’t negotiate love, can we? It is or it isn’t. Love is exquisite and mysterious that way.
There is a beautiful Jane Siberry song whose lyrics have given me pause over the years. In it she asks, “… If you could, do you think you would trade in all the pain and suffering? But then you’d miss the beauty of the light upon this earth…” and I think there is so much truth in this. Without the darkness, there is no light.
I believe, to the fiber of my being, that everyone who crosses our paths does so for a cosmic reason: We touch lives and others touch ours for the lessons we came here to learn. It is always right to open our hearts to another. It is always a gift, even when that gift causes us pain. Through it we get to experience “the light upon this earth”.
In another Jane Siberry song she talks, specifically, about learning through love, saying, “Maybe it was to learn how to love, maybe it was to learn how to leave, maybe it was for the games we played. Maybe it was to learn how to choose, maybe it was to learn how to lose, or maybe it was for the love we made… Maybe it was to learn how to fight, maybe it was for the lesson in pride, maybe it was to learn not to lie, or maybe it was to learn how to cry… So take a lesson from the strangeness you feel and know you’ll never be the same and find it in your heart to kneel down and say, I gave my love, didn’t I? And I gave it big sometimes…”
Loving is never wrong, even when you quit loving, even when you quit being loved.
I gave my love, didn’t I? And I gave it big sometimes. And no matter the final outcome, that is always, always right.
Love to you all,
Jeane
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Thanks for the full frontal smiling picture of you! You are beautiful good friend!
Hey you, I didn’t get an email notification, as I usually do, letting me know this comment was here, so I’m sorry I didn’t respond sooner. Full frontal, huh? Sounds almost dirty 🙂 My friend, Kevin Hulett took that shot. Not sure about the beautiful thing, but thank you… I’ll accept the good friend part!
Jeane Jeane Jeana, we are still having a hard time with compliments aren’t we? And I am talking about you and ME:) It’s ok, we are still amazingly part of the glorious bounty of beauty, even if we don’t admit it or accept compliments about it easily lol. Just can’t stop that universal energy of huge and awesome WOW that is in every one of us. Here and Now. Those are lyrics also of a less showy type:)
I am leaning into the beauty of ageing….and find that as a 21 year old compliments were more often and just as easy to deflect…and now I do the “rechilding” to recall its all beauty:) Then and now…and as you reminded someone else it was fine then and fine now:)
All my love,
Grace:) Muwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!
Back to the actual BLOG
I always empathize with your hearts human aches…its how I know I am alive and happy to be human…you are so wise and so I forget to just say sorry sweetie if you ever hurt. It’s healthy to feel sorrow and to cry and wail…I think after my Father’s funeral I realized there is much desire by many to not show tears or even draw near to those who are feeling pain. I run to them…hug those with the biggest crocodile tears. It makes me feel better and so I think do they.
LOVE. I think you understand how to move through the cycles of your own need for solitude and romance, sharing quiet with your animals, and moments of realizing there is a silence you want filled. And so into your life move those that fit and like water, flow over and into you and never “leave” – just move to the pull that gravity and life’s patterns call to them…leaving patterns in you as the water acts on streams edges and the lovely rocks that roll about in the surf. How are we different – except that we think about the turns in the surf and our edges smoothing. If you one day come across that one that fits and stays – you will get to play with how the surf tumbles you both – against each other and as you roll free in your own eddies and wet twirls.
Sweetness to you today…sigh.
Grace:)
LOVE IS NOT SO IMPORTANT,MONEY IS VERY IMPORTANT IN OUR LIVE
We are all walking our own individual paths. Perhaps money is more important to you than love. I’ll admit a need for both.