Love Simply Is...

My heart cracked open this week, love peeking through the crevices of the guard I'd put up to protect myself from feeling the heartache of a significant separation and break up.

I've been moving through the energy of surrender--which had been bringing so much peace, understanding, and compassion--and further into the realm of acceptance, with comes with it its own grief that now must be worked through.

Part of that has been allowing myself to sit within the sacredness of my connection with God and allowing myself to feel everything that comes up--every human emotion, every nostalgic memory, every painful experience--to be alchemized, transmuted, cleared through the energy of love.

"I loved him," I whispered to God in the early morning hours.

"And that's why it hurts," I felt God respond. "Because you think the love went somewhere. You think it was lost or destroyed or wasted. Let me tell you something: love always simply is. It exists. It reforms itself, creates the new, but it is never gone and never wasted."

As I move through the revolving experience of feeling these emotions--peace for the love that surrounds me, joy for the life I'm creating, and grief for the ending that had to come with accepting there may never be a new beginning--I dive deeper into my higher heart and commune with God.

"Don't seek for answers," God reminds me. "Don't seek for comfort. You'll find both with me. Let me be your comfort. Let me guide your way. Sit with me and open your heart."

And so I sit and I listen and I love.

(This essay was originally published September 18, 2022 by Susan Dawn)