The Mystery of Love
After writing over fifty newsletters, I have found it difficult to come up with new ideas every week. Every time I think about some topic like prayer, gratitude or music, I review my previous newsletters and realize that I’ve already written about them. So, I decided to look through my book of original sayings called Passing Through the Dream. I came up with one chapter called “The Mystery of Love,” and I thought I would write about love and share the sayings.
The concept of love is perhaps the most widely interpreted idea of all time. Many times, the idea of romantic love is discussed in art and life. There is also the love of others, like the love we have for relatives and relationships generally. The difference being that relatives travel with us for much of our lives while other relationships come and go. Friends moves away or get different jobs, roommates graduate and we often lose touch with them almost completely. With relatives, the bond is often stronger, but we even they depart with death.
There is also the love of activities and possessions. Ambition is another form of love for some people. There is also – importantly - the love of God in which we desire peace and acceptance.
Yet love can also can be defined as something different all together. The kind of love that has no expectations. The closest form of this love is “a mother’s love.” Both in nature and with us, a mother will risk her very life to protect her offspring. She also may accept her child no matter what they have done or not done.
Some philosophers would say that love is the glue that holds the universe together, and that God’s love is so compassionate, it is beyond human understanding. Understandably, love has been described for countless generations and, no doubt, it will be discussed for countless generations to come.
However, there is a kind of love that is seeking, and it’s been said that it’s behind all other forms of love; the desire to know and love God. In order to love God, we continue to seek him in an attempt to know him better. This is the main theme of my sayings about love. I thought I might describe some of these ideas in the following chapter called “The Mystery of Love.” I hope you find it interesting and intriguing:
The Mystery of Love
Love has compassion for those in distress.
It offers to help while others forget.
When God is forgotten and love has no root,
The world is the monarch and man is the fool.
Love is forgiveness with no secret grudge.
All other gestures are cynical words.
When hope becomes worn, brittle, and cracked,
Love is the friendship that always comes back.
Love is the master that guides every soul,
And everyone seeks the infinite goal.
Life is confusing when love seems to fade,
Yet God has a plan that’s never too late.
Love is primeval like mist on the sea.
It offers the joy of power and peace.
First saying nothing, but then saying yes,
Love is the parent who knows what is best.
Love is the wisdom that doesn’t seek fame.
God is the witness who loves all the same.
Love is the presence of God in the heart,
Yet everyone thinks He lives somewhere else.
I hope you enjoyed my discussion about love. Thanks for staying with me for these newsletters. It means a lot. See you next week.
(Please remember these are my own ideas, and I’m not attempting to persuade anyone to change theirs.)
Quotes:
“As the river enters into the ocean,
so my heart touches Thee.” Kabir
“I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.” William Blake
“There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!” Saint Francis de Sales
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