LOVE SETTLES

Love settles like rain. If we should be fortunate to receive love, it must settle. This is like rain falling to the ground. A great storm is exciting. A soft rain calming. A warm rain like a bath from heaven. And yet how quickly the water retreats into the earth. Where did it go? Love survives when it has work to do. It nourishes and it what it nourishes becomes the work of love. So love has a cycle. It comes and then it settles. If we do not understand love, love leaves. That is it settles but it has nothing to nourish. No clear path of expression. And this is when we can feel betrayed by love or feel clueless in regards to love.

This is why we must become things. Trees or bushes, or shrubs. We need to know our vehicles and mechanisms. In this love has something to nourish. How many years have I lost watching divine love pass through me only to disappear. I go straight to my head. Where did it go? And I start planning on ways to get it back or analyzing the “rain” that has disappeared. The heart has lacked wisdom. Wisdom is what defines our vehicle for love. And then, as an extension of that wisdom, We allow the cycle to happen. Love comes and we allow it to settle. Love falls. We fall in love, is this not true? A huge part of receiving love is falling. Not to the bottom of a dark well! No. To the earth. Love takes us to heaven and when it returns us to the earth. If we are angry about this, we do not understand love. Not only does it take us back to earth it seeps into the earth. If we try to hang on, good luck. We cannot hang on to love any more than we can rain. This when we become students of love. Students of water and rain.

Wisdom comes from the art of paying attention. We must train our selves to feel the cycle of love, not by going to a bar and meeting someone, but by the experience of divine love, letting it enter our heart and seeing how it seeks to fall downward into the earth. We must allow it to do so. It is asking us, what now? What begins as our relationship to our heart ends as our relationship to the earth beneath our feet. Love is rain It fuel. It is nourishment. When it settles it is no longer in our hands, no? It nourishes what it nourishes. And so when love settles, it beckons us to become listeners, not keepers. What is the way of love? Where does it go and what does it nourish? How and why? How does love return and re energize and when does it just evaporate and seemingly nourish or cause anything to grow? You will find no answers from me here. That is your job. We need to pay attention. No one can truly answer these questions for us. Love is asking how much do you care/ Are you paying attention, not is someone else paying attention for us.

Love settles my friends. It seeps into the earth. If our wisdom is in tact, it will rise to nourish that wisdom. If our wisdom is not present, love is often waiting for us beneath the earth, even if we should feel cold and disconnected. This is how we can find our selves always looking to the heavens, always feeling empty handed in relation to love, shaking our fists in betraya. Where are you? Meanwhile the love we seek is beneath our feet. It has already come and settled. It is simply waiting for us to wake up and embrace the wisdom of how to accept and work with love. If we can do that, it may not be the exciting rain of love from above we expect or thought we needed to move forward. Rather it is the slow, purposeful, love from below that ultimately can fuel becoming the best of us.