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Answering the Call for Love

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If we consider all behaviours as either an expression of love or a call for love, for all acts of fear our invitation is always ‘How will we answer the call for love?’

I know that I want to respond to that call, not from a place of fear, anxiousness, judgment or anger, but from a place of love in myself.

Only love can teach love.

I can not either teach love or respond with love if I am feeling resistance or making a judgment. If I am to respond to the call for love with love I must first accept this person is coming from fear, rather than resisting it in my judgment of them with some version of ‘They shouldn’t be doing that.’

There is a simple truth in that if we believed what they believed we would behave as they behave.

Our response may be speaking an unwelcome truth, a simple embrace, or simple act of loving kindness. It may be one of force to protect humanity, force to protect our children, force to protect ourselves. We may have to leave a relationship, have someone evicted, or use military force against a terrorist organisation.

Don’t be fooled into thinking this is just about terrorists or violent criminals. This is also about the driver who cuts you up with a finger sign on the way to the store, the checkout operator hissing as he packs your bags, or the Facebook friend making less-than-complimentary comments about others, or simply providing a written commentary on how crap their life seems to be.

Let us choose our response to the call for love guided by the wisdom of love itself, not by terror or fear.

In all who you meet, will you respond to the call for love with love?
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