Yesterday’s
2016 Lenten theme was Love. The Rev. Evelyn Foreman writes, “Like the sun,
love’s joy is pure, nourishing, and continually giving.”
Susannah Conway challenged me to find heart-shaped objects or just hearts. Love is a theme for the month of
February. Hearts, flowers, Valentine
cards, and chocolate candy all have a common thread – love.
Finding
the hearts has not been easy. I have a
beautiful book by Connie Smith, a cancer survivor, entitled “Never Lose Heart;
hope for the journey.” It is filled with
photographs of hearts and inspiring poetry.
Slightly intimidated, I have begun my search.
I found: a cut paper lamp shade that has been
a bedside table lamp for years, a Pennsylvania Dutch print wedding
announcement, a gift from my parents; a Pirkenhammer
tea cup, originally from Czechoslovakia in the 1800’s that belonged to Mark’s
grandmother; a drawing by my granddaughter
Lexi; a signed and dated poster of the Canton (MS) annual Flea Market showing hearts
on the clown’s face; and a heart-shaped frame of my precious dog, Speck who
shared 16 years of his life with our family.
All these heart shapes are symbols of the love that lives in my heart.
(Excerpt taken from my Facebook Musing.)
“Love in
Divine Mind, is the idea of Universal unity.
In expression, it is the power that joins and binds together the universe
and everything in it. Love is a harmonizing,
constructive power. When it is made
active in consciousness, it conserves substance and reconstructs, rebuilds, and
restores mankind and its world.” – Charles Fillmore
When we
know the Truth we know that we are all one, that there is no separation whatsoever. We learn by experience that love must be
directed by wisdom. God is kindness; God
is love. Loving-kindness is a word of
rare compound. Our greatest good comes
in the welfare of all. Divine love sees
no distinction among persons. When we
even faintly realize the love of God, we begin to love our fellow man.
Love is
more than gifts one time a year, it has no boundaries and knows no limits—it
soars beyond strife or struggle. And
remember through love all things are possible.
“I am blessed by
the overcoming power of love.”
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