Highest Love - Sacred Relationships Begin Within
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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?
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