By Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway

From Rituals For Love and Romance: Attract Your Soulmate with Self-Love and Ceremony (HealingEbooks, May 2009).

Spring is upon us. This is the time when the heart reawakens from the darkness of winter.

This new spring is a wonderful time to reclaim your birthright and take a stand for your own self- worth and innate ability to love and live in the embrace of love.

It may be tough to open your heart when: you have had trouble with love in the past; you have been horribly disappointed and had your heart broken by people you've loved; you are lonely, angry, unhappy, sad, worried or bummed out; you believe you can’t find true, lasting, soulful love because you’ve not found it yet; or you have lost love.

But springtime is a great time to make a new choice – right now – to reclaim the innocence of the heart and reconnect to soulful love.

Continue reading "Love Meditation."

Posted May 17, 2009 10:46 PM by Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email This

For many years I had a special altar where I would keep the prayers of those searching for love. Recently, I decided to make it a cyber prayer wall. Here is a recent prayer from Lisa; she asked me to share it here. To leave your love prayers, go to The Soulmate Project.

Dear Rev. Laurie Sue -- I had read about your love altar and I was not sure if you are still accepting love wishes to include on it, but wanted to ask anyway. This is not so much a romantic counterpart wish but this is my “love dream." -- Thank you. Kindly, Lisa

Lisa's Ultimate Love Wish

My love wish is to finally fall in love with myself. For far too long I have denied my own inner goddess and silenced my voice. I have allowed what others have said to me to continually bring me down and tarnish the way I view and feel about myself.

Continue reading "Lisa's Wishes for Love" »

Posted December 14, 2008 9:23 AM by Editor | Permalink | Comments (1) | Email This

On the wedding day, we all stand in awe of the great promise that stretches before us as we celebrate the potential for great and lasting love. Seeing a bride and groom step up to the altar helps ignite the flame of love that lives within us all. We adore weddings because they bring us together in great happiness to celebrate two people. In the process, it awakens the love in our hearts and the great potential that lies within. Weddings help everyone focus on, and remember, love.

-- Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway

Posted December 1, 2008 7:56 PM by Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email This

Beyond our day-to-day concerns is a possibility that calls to us... that all our relationships can be sacred and loving. Many of us long to transcend fear and open our hearts. Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway offers inspiration on sacred relationships, soulful love and matters of the heart and spirit in her new column, "Highest Love."

By Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway
Editor, Wedlok.com

Love is the most mystifying, complex, powerful, extraordinary, amazing force in the universe.

Mystics have tried to capture its essence. Poets have attempted to explain it. And lovers through the ages have gotten lost in its sacred presence and its sometimes-terrifying grip.

Love is the very essence of who we are. It is where we come from, and where we return to when our time on this planet is through. How interesting it is that, although it is within us always, we spend most of our adult lives in love’s pursuit!

We often seek its innocence and purity outside of ourselves, forgetting that it is virtually impossible to know the fullness of love if we can’t first feel and know it for ourselves. Our first task, really, is to love ourselves. If we don’t, we must find a way there.

In wedding ceremonies, I will often ask Bride and Groom to speak this vow to one another: “I promise to do all I can to love myself so that I can receive fully the love you offer me.”

Without the foundation of self-love, we are like baskets with no bottoms, with no foundation to uphold or contain love. Someone can love you with more heart than you ever imagined, but where will it go if you have no internal mechanism for recognizing pure love?

Continue reading "Highest Love - Sacred Relationships Begin Within" »

Posted February 29, 2008 5:59 AM by Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email This