Are You Looking for Love?

Stop Looking. Love is everywhere

I even found a bit of love in my coffee cup this morning!

Let’s talk about love.

Most people wish they had more love in their life.

Everyone agrees that there needs to be more love in the world.

Love is like ice cream, puppies and starlight. What is there not to like?

We all want more of it. No one wants less.

But what is this “thing” called love?

What Is Love?

When I was a child, I thought that love meant hot soup, homemade bread, a warm bed, and a smack on the bottom from my mother when I was naughty because she wanted me to be the best I could be.

In my early twenties, love was a fluttering around my heart that made me go weak at the knees and believe that the person holding my hand, whose eyes were as blue as the sky, was perfect for me, and that we’d live in total harmony until the end of time.

When I became a mother five times, love was skin-on-skin, an enfolding of tinyness, whispered vows in deepest night, into an as yet uncomprehending ear, that I would always be there, no matter what.

In my sixties, when my father, my brother-in-law and then my older sister died, I sensed love as the sometimes almost hidden intention underlying every human life.

Now that I’m in my seventies, I say that love is an energetic, eternal, numinous presence.

Love may involve hot soup, a held hand, a whispered vow, but at its deepest and most lasting expression, love is immersion of the self in all-that-is.

In an interview, the American singer, songwriter and musician Gregory Porter said that when he sang about love:

. . . I mean acceptance, I mean mercy, I mean kindness, I mean equality, decency, fairness.

Eckhart Tolle states that love is oneness recognising itself.

When I recognise oneness all around me, I am love.

When I am love, then acceptance, mercy, kindness, equality, decency and fairness pour out of me from an endless, energetic, eternal, numinous, unstoppable source.

Love Is Everywhere

In his hit song, ‘Love Is in the Air’, John Paul Young summed up where love is. It’s in every sight and sound, in the rising and setting of the sun, in the sea’s thunder, in the whispering in the trees and in the looks in others’ eyes.

In other words, there is nowhere that love is not.

Love is everywhere.

Waiting to be recognised.

Waiting to be shared.

With love, Marlane