A Meaning of God is Love

God is love is the greater love of self. When you've got that, it doesn't matter what is going on. You are inwardly secure and externally blessed.

It doesn't come like a bolt out of the blue. It involves taking risks and learning from your mistakes. In the end, things work out. I'd given up on marriage when my soul mate appeared. I knew she was meant for me from the moment we met.

On our first date, Karen, for some reason she can't explain, said she wanted our's to be a “platonic relationship.” Our astrological compatibility chart says it would be love at first sight. It speaks of a platonic relationship, of brotherly and sisterly love in addition to the passionate part.

I just read this in James Redfield's The Celestine Prophecy: An Experiential Guide: “Platonic Relationships: Getting to know how someone of the opposite sex feels and thinks helps us achieve integration and wholeness. This is best done with someone who is willing to reveal himself honestly and who is conscious of his own evolution.” Somehow I knew I could trust Karen to be honest with me. She has never let me down.

Redfield asks, “What Is Coincidence?” His answer: “Carl Jung called it the archetype of ‘magical effect' and claimed that it was a universal trait in humans. Recognizing the important rule that coincidence plays in moving our lives along takes us back to the instincts of the alert, poised hunter praying for the emergence of quarry, and the deeply attuned receptive state of a powerful shaman or medicine woman.” My astrological chart says a mate is the most important thing in my life. After three tries and failure, miraculously, the right one suddenly appeared two weeks after the third wife left.

I'm writing a book of memoirs. There are too many coincidences in my life to say they are coincidences. We can get in a rut. Looking back at my middle-age existence, the coincidences started taking place after I felt a calling to leave my old life and seek a new and better one. Who can say what causes it, but when we're on our paths of destiny, coincidentally, just when it seems hopeless, something like finding the love of your life happens, and keeps happening. I count my blessings every day.

Re: A Meaning of God is Love

Great post as usual Joe.  Really great.

On a sort of peculiar side note: do you think there is ever a point in time -in between existences or current realities- where part of us -disembodied in this case- consciously choose the lessons we wish to take out of our forthcoming life?  In other words, do you think we have a hand in the course of our lives events, for the sake of learning something new from new mistakes -and feeling something new for the sake of progression?  I have often felt this way myself; subscribing to the notion quite deeply.  What are your thoughts?

Dave

Re: A Meaning of God is Love

This response to God Is Love didn't get read until now.  I don't view the mind, or our immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of life ever part of our physical selves.  We come here out of a dimension of infinite possibility, aware of ourselves. By observing, we create our reality, which is the state of our being.  States don't have boundaries.  The state of our being can be in a box  of our making, or selfless—boundless, in which case we've made ourselves in the image of God.