Ah, love. We want it. We need it.

Here’s the thing. It’s everywhere. I know we believe that love is severely lacking in this world, but I strongly disagree. Quite the opposite, my love.

Love is seen as a premium product because we are deeply attached to what we expect it to look like, sound like, and feel like.

Love should look lovely. Love should sound loving. Love should make me feel loved.

If love doesn’t come to us looking, sounding, and feeling like the ways we expect it to, then it is absent. I say it exists all the time. Love is ever-present.

Here’s why you don’t need to want it. Here’s why you don’t need to need it….

Love isn’t an emotion and love isn’t a behaviour. Love is an energy. You can’t destroy energy – it only changes form.

We are always expressing this energy in some way or another depending on how we feel and choose to behave.

The thing is, our feelings and behaviours often suggest otherwise.

But love and how you feel and how you behave are all one.

You are constantly expressing love. Everyone is constantly expressing love.

We are all physical expressions of love.

Right now you might be thinking that this is hard to believe. You might be having a hard time buying into this when you have spent your life learning that love has opposites such as fear, anger, and sadness. You have learned that when those feelings or behaviours show up, love has left the building.

It hasn’t budged. It’s there. Just look for it.

When you fear loss, it’s because you love(d) someone or something deeply.

When you fear failure, it’s because you love something so much and want to realize your dreams.

When you are angry at someone, it’s because you love them so damn much and that’s why you care so damn much…enough to be angry.

When you feel sadness, it’s because you have loved something or someone so much that this loss has stopped you in your tracks and made grocery shopping a near impossible task.

And so on. When you feel “non-loving” emotions and demonstrate “non-loving” behaviours, remember that it’s all love just being expressed in ways that our minds have decided to be something entirely different.

Now apply this consciousness to your friend, your lover, your mother, your father, your brother, your sister, and your peeps at work…yes, even your boss. They are all expressing love even though their emotions and their behaviours may suggest otherwise.

Ah love. We want it. We need it. But it’s everywhere. Spend today (and the rest of your days) seeing it in its vast and varied expressions.

big love,

susan