{"id":725,"date":"2012-06-02T00:37:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mothermaryswords.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/02\/got-love-15\/"},"modified":"2012-06-02T00:37:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:37:36","slug":"got-love-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/2012\/06\/got-love-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

We live in a society where love is sung about, written about, talked about, looked for, and we are told that without it then life sucks. \u00a0Yet, most of what we actually know and our taught about love is outside of ourselves. \u00a0We are taught to give and yet we have troubling receiving. \u00a0In relationships, people play games, blame, complain, take out their stuff on their partners, and hold back love. \u00a0This is normal, acceptable behavior. \u00a0Some relationships compete, compare, judge each other and call this love. \u00a0I was listening to the radio just now and a song came on about how this man really hurt this woman by leaving her. \u00a0Now am I suggesting love is just this happy place where bliss and joy exist, and no fighting and healing are, actually no I am not suggesting that. But what I am suggesting is that love needs to be redefined and looked at in a society.<\/p>\n

With sites like Facebook, it is easer to defriend and move on. \u00a0We live in a society where once somethings happens we run away and cut our loses, but we aren\u2019t taught to work with things, be with them, and see how the experience is opening us up to our bigger self. \u00a0Instead we want everyday to be like Christmas and open the gift and move on to the next one. \u00a0We have a sense that life is greener over there. Then in relationships we build up a false sense of expectation, need, and when we don\u2019t look those expectations, then your partner pays for it. \u00a0We have trouble accepting ourselves and yet we expect others to accept us as we are and when they don\u2019t we get upset. \u00a0<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have time for others, so we text, email them, and then we misinterpret their response on text or email. \u00a0Rather than picking up a phone and talking , we fight over text. \u00a0We are becoming more and more distant. Love seems to be just a word. \u00a0<\/p>\n

People seem to be looking for a quick fix in their spiritual practice, love, health, relationships, money, etc\u2026without wanting to stop and look at themselves. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Love is simple. It accepts everything without holding on. \u00a0It gives and receives. \u00a0So what does it give. It gives its complete attention to people. It doesn\u2019t run, have an argument, complaint, judgment of others, judgment, blame, which are wonderful ways to see where you are. If you are more concerned about what others think of your relationships, or you are concerned by what others say about your relationships, then perhaps you may need to sit down and be with yourself. \u00a0Love doesn\u2019t care what others think about others, because love is just loving. \u00a0Love is natural and is learned. Hate which is unnatural is learned too. \u00a0We learn in our lives to gossip, complain, blame, hurt, fight, and yet we never learn to really listen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When you really listen to everything with your whole being, then you will be able to learn. When you learn, you begin to learn about not only the other but yourself. That learning is the beginning of love. From that point, love will blossom. \u00a0 You can not act love. You are love. \u00a0Discover what mystic\u2019s know. \u00a0Focus on the bigger love and get to know that. \u00a0So I encourage you to stop playing small in love, which is conditional. Love appreciates and accepts. \u00a0<\/p>\n

So appreciate yourself, appreciate your gifts, and appreciate life as a great learning tool. \u00a0Grow up, grow in, grow out, just allow each day to help in your growth as a lover, adventurer, and child of this planet. \u00a0And please forgive, forgive, forgive everything and everyone. \u00a0<\/p>\n

to contact me regarding questions, sessions, email me: semjase64@gmail.com<\/p>\n

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