Love is a Wild Thing
Love is a wild thing. No really. A WILD THING. It’s amusing to me how it seems that so few people really understand something we are all continually seeking to find. A desire so dear and tender to the heart; love, acceptance, belonging, hope, in a relationship with another… Love.
Yet it seems to continuously elude us as a society, barring the lucky few who seem to find it. WOW… Here are some beautiful lessons love has taught me. Real love does not always show up in a way that feels kind. Sometimes, what seems unkind is the most loving thing you can give.
And how do you know the difference? That’s the WILD part of love. The giving and receiving love, deep love without the false perceptions of what you think love is, but really is not. I am continually left in wonder as the beautiful lessons that love teaches are subtly revealed.
I’m in awe of the beauty love demonstrates through what seems painful and unloving because the love within it is hidden in the layers of grief and sadness and pain; longing to be revealed. The most pain-filled experiences that are seemingly devoid of any love are actually filled with a brilliance of joy from which love can be the only source.
They can only be discovered through the seemingly unlikely and difficult paths within that pain. And that pain that brings up the deepest fears that either create hesitation and more pain and fear; or strength to the degree that you feel that fear. Either way, you feel the fear, the pain and the suffering; but which direction you choose to see, is where you’ll find the deepest love is hidden within the deepest experience of emotions.
It is the invitation to see what is unseen but there. That is how love is so wild, because love is not in the romantic or the bliss or the happiness we think love is, though those can be a part of love and are desirable experiences.
Real, authentic, lasting, wild love is hidden so much deeper than the surface of what love is portrayed to be. In my experience thus far and the most beautiful of which is how to know God. In knowing God, it is then revealed how to know and love myself.
From there, it is becoming a being filled with love and practicing giving unconditional love to those around me in a God like way; for me, first to my children and then others around me. This shows me how I am being transformed through the experience of God in finding how to truly know and love myself.
The God I’ve come to know is far different from what I thought was God, before experiencing God. I see how I am learning to love more dearly through experiencing the raw beauty of what doesn’t seem lovely or beautiful and accept things as they are in these love lessons. I’m in even more awe.
Beyond what I can handle in my inner life and the obligations of outer life; there are these beautiful souls. People around me who demonstrate the layers of love all around me. The friends who stay and the friends who go. Most deeply, my friends who can allow what is in me to be and love deeply because of it.
Friends who know my heart and love because they see what’s there and love it. They see what’s not there and accept it and what is and allow it. In all they see in me, in all I allow them to see without bounds or barriers.
In spite of what else they see that is part of the whole picture and… wow… In moments like this it’s hard to fathom how much love my God has for me in every aspect of my life. It is demonstrated in the love of those I love who love unconditionally.
It’s all practicing unconditional love, the pure love of God. It is in every aspect now, that I see and feel the love of God. As my perception has shifted, now I can see how all experiences; painful and hard, beautiful and yummy are an expression of love.
How to grow and expand that love within myself is fully under my direction, my power, and within my heart through the things I believe but don’t see. And in the things I find because I search for that which I cannot see but is there. It’s so wild…