The bigger they are the harder I fall.

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Keeping with the whole topic of spirituality, I thought I would talk a little today about love. What love does, what it doesn't do, and why so many people really don't understand what love could do to change the entire landscape of this planet.

Let me start out by asking this very simple question: where does love come from?  Did it come from your parents?  Do you create your own love, or do you pick it up from others around you?  Can love make or break you?  These are all good questions, but I think the most important question has to be, what does love have to do with me?  If you are ever going to fully understand the importance of you being here right now, then the first thing you have to know, feel, and believe is that you were born from love.  I'm not talking the love that your biological parents shared, but the love of the Creator of the Universe, God.  We have managed as humans to change the definition of love.  We simply see love as that which exist between two people, or between an owner and his or her pet.  We see love for a job, a car, money, any number of things out there.  But, can you see that your creation was for no other reason then love?

If one can accept the premise that we were formed out of love, and because of love, then one would have to accept the truth that we are love.  We might not always display it, we may not always feel it, but that isn't to say love is not all around us, engulfing us with each breath we take.  As a spiritual being there is no other way to look at our creation.  Regretfully we have allowed the good intentions of Man to screw up the concept of love.  We have allowed the conditioning that we have been exposed to since our birth to dictate what love is.  It is time to get back to basics and accept why you were put here and the force behind that placement.

Love as defined by others is simply that mushy feeling inside that we get when the person of our affection either walks past us, into the same room we are in, or simply throws a smile our way.  Love is the comfort one feels when their emotional and physical needs are met by the object of their affection.  I don't disagree with this, but that is only a small aspect of love.  Do you love yourself as much as you love others?  Do you realize that you are the object of affection for others and does this knowledge bring you comfort?  Do you see the rest of the world's occupants as others worthy of this love and do you wish it for everyone you come in contact with?

Love comes with a price.  Once you understand love, once you accept it for yourself, and once you acknowledge that it is for everyone, then you will have embarked on a journey that you will not be able to quit, nor will it ever end.  Truth be told, once you begin this journey, you have lost the right to pick and choose who you love.  Even the most vile among us is deserving of love.  Hard to administer at times as this person may have hurt, harmed, or even brutalized people you know, or yourself for that matter.  When you accept the premise of love then you accept the responsibility to administer this love to everyone you come in contact with, whether you feel like it or not.  If at the time of your creation God decided to hold back love, simply because it was a matter of like or dislike, then he would not be God.  If you choose to hold back your love from others simply because they have done something you do not like, then you have abdicated your rightful place, and you have only done this because you could not see the bigger picture.  Love is never about what is in it for me, love is simply what am I able to do for others.

If what I am writing today makes you cringe, then I will say that you need to look at love in an entirely different way.  Because we are asked to love every one does not mean we have to condone behavior that is contrary to our way of life.  There are people who will commit heinous crimes.  The punishment handed down is normally justified, but this person is still deserving of love.  Yes they deserve to be punished, but love is love and they still were created from love.  Yes there is contradiction when it comes to love, but that is only because man has convoluted the true aspect of love. If we are able to recognize the kind of love that brought each of us into existence, then we will be one step closer to being able to display this same kind of love to those around us, and then we will begin to change the world one person at a time.

Love is what we are, what brought us here and it is what will keep us moving ever closer to a world where others know and will walk in their True Destiny.  Without a knowledge of real love it will be nearly impossible to step out into your destiny, and walking in your destiny is why you were put here in the first place.  Love is hard to handle, but once you get a firm grip on it, your life and those around you will change forever. The bigger they are the harder they fall, but falling in love with all of humanity is something worth doing, and once again, something that we all need to do.  Discover the power of the love that created you and then you will begin to walk in that love for all others.  Safe journeys to you.