LOVE MONTH: DAY 3: You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from. ~ Werner Erhard
The first time I read this, I thought; “Wow! That is great news.” We ALL come from love, I truly believe that. Our only search is for that place, that Source, that remembering who and what we are.
All our searching, I believe, is because we have forgotten who we are and where we are going and where we come from.
The struggle is real. Our true Essence is spiritual, but we live in a material world, where the things we see are driven by Ego and Fear and Greed and all the other character defects we possess.
It is not only addicts who have these things, they are a big part of the human condition. Pain and suffering are the result of our character defects driving us to fight with each other and to hurt others in our attempts to get what we believe we want.
We can all learn to let go of our expectations of others and the need to control and manipulate them to get what we want. I spent some time recently meditating on the Prayer of St. Francis. It is a beautiful prayer. I seldom do that meditation, but it often speaks to me.
I am self-centered; I believe that is the pain of the human condition. I demand that I get what I believe I want from the world, without thought or regard as to how it may be harming others or interfering with their process.
So, today, I am open to letting go of my agendas that I may assist others to find personal freedom through love.
Service is the greatest gift of love we can give; IF we are able to let it be the work of spirit, not our Ego. There is nothing we need to gain or any result we have to achieve. An hour spent with a newer member, or even an older member, is a gift if we are not trying to cram our agenda down their throat.
I want to serve in ways that are loving. I want to be the message of recovery that others can hear and see and remember. That is a tough path to walk, because I still have the voice in my head that tells me otherwise. I am critical of self and others. This is what we must overcome, for none of this is love and none of this is my true Essence. I really do hope to come from THAT.
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