Are You in Love With Life?

Dear Reader,

Sometimes, before I start writing a new post, I sit quietly and see what comes to me in the silence. Today, I started with the title you see above, and then sat. After a few minutes, I began to chuckle. I couldn’t help myself. Here’s why…

As I sat and meditated, possible first sentences, phrases, and random words started to flash through my mind. Although a few thoughts seemed promising, they didn’t feel “right”. Then my mind went completely blank, as if the title I had written didn’t exist at all. So of course my next thought, in a moment of pure panic, was: “I have nothing to say.”

But I sat through that.

It disappeared quickly, and as my mind quieted in the silence, I felt my breathing, the weight of my body seated in my chair, heard the sound of the waves outside my window…

What came next began as a tiny feeling of warmth in my chest that grew, spread, and deepened, until I recognized it as love.

I chuckled, because I realized that I had been given the answer to my own question. I was also reminded – yet again – that when we focus within and maintain that focus faithfully enough for our thoughts, fears, desires, past regrets and daily headlines to dissipate, what most often remains deep within the silence is – pure love.

In other words, love is always present, waiting patiently to be felt.

I ask you, dear reader, how amazing is that?

I honor your loving heart,

John