Love is the Glue
Rev. Cheril Goodrich ã
What is the Same
We are all searching for the seeming illusive love connection. That special something that draws us together and keeps us safe and feeling secure. As we go through life, we all have had those moments when we knew we had been touched by “something”, but holding onto that something and being able to refer to it beyond a temporary situation may seem to be beyond what we are capable of. To find Love, we must begin to realize that Love is not a situation or an experience. Love holds Laws that are beyond the confines that we place on It. If we want to share in this kind of Love, it is up to us to learn of the Laws that Love lives by. It is this we are seeking for, but we are looking for It in the wrong place. By learning real Love, we learn what is the same in everyone.
In each of us, Love is the same. I’m not talking about the kind of love that fantasizes and holds false expectations of others. This kind of love expects us to live up to capabilities that we are incapable of. Each of us come from different backgrounds and are therefore subject to our past physical learning experiences. When we enter a relationship, we bring our past learning with us. True Love does not make adjustments, It just is. When we try to adjust love, we are in error. Real Love cannot be used as a weapon of manipulation. Manipulation is learned, Love is not, it is just known. What must happen for correction to occur is the two parties have to adjust their faulty past learning to the healing ability of Love. Once a relationship based on Laws of Love is decided on, Love has the ability to reside and bring meaning to the relationship. Without this the glue seems to dissolve and the relationship goes along with the glue.
Is it possible to undo Love or lose it? Because if this is possible, then it is possible to undo the Universe. There is a corridor that runs through the mind. Within this corridor Love resides and looks for Self Evidence. When Love finds Itself it attaches to those who share the same view. It is only possible for this to happen in thought. While in the physical realm this occurs when both have decided to hold a Love thought and keep it a sacred space and becomes Self Evident in the lives of those that continue to hold It. This sacred space has the ability to heal any relationship, and bring Love to anyone that chooses to join with this higher ideal. But to choose this kind of Love takes an ability that may seem to be beyond our capability. This kind of Love is not beyond our capability, it is just different than anything our physical experience has taught us. This does not mean that there are never any problems in our relationship. It means that we are keeping safe the connection to Love by choosing not to allow conflict to become a part of the Love that has been a chosen expression between two individuals. It is this that will keep the relationship alive, even if it does not continue in our physical experience. Only Real Love has the ability to hold this and keep this safe. To experience this kind of Love, we must be willing to step beyond the confines of what the past has taught us and learn of our true reality that does not exist in another person, but instead is shared with another in a Love relationship.
Finding Real Love
True Love is content and not form. The meaning of this statement may seem to be a little confusing until we understand the differences between being and doing. Doing requires a physical body and is ruled by force or manipulation. Being on the other hand is governed by Laws that are greater than that of force and manipulation. These are the Laws that govern the Universe and nature. When viewed as helpful, they fall under the direction of Eternal Law. When viewed as detrimental and destructive, they fall under the direction of physical law or force and manipulation. How we behold what we see determines whether it is beneficial or destructive. For instance a phenomenon that is seen as destructive, such as a volcano eruption, when viewed from a whole perspective is a chaotic force that in the end brings stability to the earth. New life begins in nature that takes the place of what has been taken away by the violent force of the volcano. Thus, the form that destruction has taken begins to move in the direction of stability when left alone. Force or manipulation merely adds to the destructive process. When we view nature as a destructive force, it becomes so in our own mind and we are fearful of the outcome. We try to force an outcome that we have no ability to control. The same is true of our relationships. Forcing or manipulating a relationship brings it to destruction. On the other hand, if we can look at a chaotic situation in a relationship as a chance to offer it to Love for healing, we can move beyond the problem to a solution. Thus Love is a meeting place that is above the two individuals own agenda where a new understanding can emerge that takes the place of the old one. Thus, out of chaos comes understanding and stability. Just like the eruption of the volcano. When it happens we cannot see how this could possibly be helpful. Out of the shadow of destruction comes new life that could not have begun if it were not for the radical change that the volcano’s eruption brought.
Bringing the memory Home
Memories are funny things in that each one brings us closer to Love or further away. When they take us far from Home, or away from where Love resides, we feel lost and out of control. This is a clue that correction is necessary. A new choice must be made to alleviate the condition of being out of sorts. This does not mean that we choose another feeling that may place ourselves or another in the position of sacrificing something that is wanted. This would hardly be fair. Sacrifice is not a win/win for everyone involved. We can begin to look beyond our own understanding and find a new way of understanding the conflict that appears to be happening now, which in fact has its roots in the past. The roots in the past are what needs healing, not the form or the person. When we continue to look at the form, we overlook content and only the content can show us meaning. When a problem arises it is from misinformation that has been learned that has distorted the content of our Love association. The distortion of Love is the rape of the soul. The rape on our soul is the conflict being revealed to us in the form of another human being. They are not the problem, they are only a symbol of what is really wrong.
Bringing the memory Home offers us another way of viewing the conflict that is “in our face” and showing itself to us in the form of another. Showing us the direction Home is the miracle that is extended to us when we choose to move beyond our own interpretation of the problem we are perceiving. Without the miracle, there would be no hope for the salvation of the world.
The Miracle
Miracles are not left to the description of mankind. Instead they are gifts that are shared with those in the world that choose to move beyond their interpretation of what they believe they see. They have the ability to make a shift within the mind and bring it to another awareness. This other awareness is not defined by anything we think we know in our physical awareness. Instead it is a hand extended in Love that brings us gently to the comforting Embrace of Love and we know that everything will be alright. This is the moment of “now” that we hear so much about. It is a shift out of the time and space continuum into another dimension that is not ruled by force or manipulation or physical law. Instead it is governed by the Laws of Peace. When we feel peaceful, we can be sure we have reached out of time and touched another reality that we believe is beyond our grasp.
Another Opportunity
Every day we are given another opportunity to change our mind. The problem arises from the incorrect scientific belief that we think with our brain. The truth is that the brain does not have the capacity to comprehend anything. It is merely an organ that is used by the mind to interpret the physical experience. It is a place where the mind stores information on how to exchange being into doing. As long as we make the assumption that being and doing are the same, we will continue to be in opposition to the Laws that the rest of creation lives by. As long as we look to the memories that are held in the brain, the mind will not move beyond the capability of incorrect interpretation and we will keep trying to “do” so we can “be” what we already are.
Love moves through the corridors of time calling to the child. The child has forgotten the sound of Love’s call so he hears another voice. This voice that he now hears speaks to him about time and the things that time holds out to him.
This child needs our help to hear the Voice of Love.
We have come to time to help the child hear the calling of Love, but we have forgotten our mission because the fear of the child speaks so loudly cutting us off, it seems, from the Voice of Love we swore we would always hear.
Mistakes have been made that need correction. Until the corrections are made the child does not hear the Call of Love and wanders aimlessly in the corridors of time searching for what he believes he has lost.
We must take the hand of the child and show him that we will hear the Voice of Love despite the child’s fear and our own. It is in the moving despite our fear that the child learns to hear the Voice that speaks for Love. The false witness of fear thus becomes non-existent.
The corridors of Love remain in the mind of the one that believes in time. Love cannot enter time except through the mind of the child. Finally, when the child hears the Voice, a crack occurs in the walls of time in which Love can enter and extend Itself, thus bringing all of existence back to Eternity. Slowly but surely, the Presence of Love moves throughout the world until peace and good will is known in all of the land at last.
