Beholding love's abilities...

You know that feeling when you hear or read someone describing exactly how you feel about something, but you never knew you felt that way until you heard it? I love that feeling. I got it this morning as I was reading my latest book, Eternal Life: A New Vision. It goes like this...

"When one is loved without boundary or merit, one finds life emerging into new dimensions never before contemplated. It was the experience of being loved that opened my eyes to see the love that is all around me, something that I had never been able to see before. It was the presence of love that empowered me, to be able to receive love and then required me to give it away. Love expanded my life to new dimensions. Love enabled me to risk, to be vulnerable, to cross boundaries, to interact and to grow to the point where I could actually be free of those survival fears that caused me to victimize those who are defined as "different". The more I gave, the more I seemed to have to give."

I quote this passage in an attempt to discuss love as it really is, and not as this season (along with all others actually) likes to see it. This time of year we are bombarded with jewelry commercials where diamonds and words are tossed about as some kind of proof of feeling. But, love, to me at least, is not a feeling at all, not an emotion, it is something deeper and unexplainable. Feelings come and go, they are just about the least stable thing in the world. No relationship can maintain on feeling alone. And, the funny thing is, the way love truly is, is so much ridiculously more beautiful than the way the Celine Dion songs make it out to be. Feelings will always come and go. But love can change your life.


Amor siempre. Yes, I am still posting photos from my Mexico trip and probably will be for a while. I worked on them for approximately 10 hours this week, and still have about 1200 to go. It'll be a while before I post them all on my flickr site. But when I do, I will definitely post a link here!