Day 103: God, being Love, is also happiness.
Day 104: I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
God is Love. I'm sure most of us have heard this at one point or another. You're probably also familiar with the phrase "love hurts" (and the hit song performed by Nazareth which made it popular). If Love is also happiness, how can it hurt?
The only reason we have to believe love hurts is if we perceive it as temporary. But True Love does not come and go. True Love is timeless, as is God. Yet this is a difficult concept for us to grasp, since the world in which we live operates along the construct of time.
Time, as Einstein concluded in his later years, does not really exist. He theorized that the past, present and future all occur simultaneously. Indeed, this is the case, yet on the material plane of existence this is near impossible for us to understand.
Have you ever had a moment so joyful, so other-worldly, so beyond anything you could have ever comprehended that it appeared time had stopped altogether? This is a semblance of what True Love is like.
Think about our memories. When we reflect upon them, they can seem almost as real as if we were there. The emotions we feel when thinking about them can be just as powerful as they were when we were actually in that moment. Sometimes it pains us to look back on the joyful and loving experiences in our lives, but it only does so because we perceive them to be lost to us. But consider this: How can these cherished times be lost if we are able to reflect on them whenever we so choose? This is proof that the Joy and Love we share during the course of our lives is kept in trust for us. We can access these happy experiences whenever we want to.
Of course, we cannot re-experience these moments to their full extent while we are still on earth creating new ones. Our purpose on this planet is to "collect" as many pearls of Joy that we possibly can. How could this be so if all we did was reminisce about moments that have passed? Inevitably, what results is a false impression that "love hurts." But if we knew the Truth - that the Joy and Love we felt has never actually left us to begin with, that our souls reside in a timeless Kingdom alongside our Creator - we would no longer experience the pain of the loss which we perceive. We would rejoice knowing that all good things await us when we return to our Heavenly state.
This, I believe, is what it means to "seek but what belongs to me in truth." Let us love freely, live joyously, and strive to find the wonder in every moment of our lives, for these are the moments that are retained for us in Light. These are the moments by which we bless others by sharing our God-given happiness. Do not be afraid of the "hurt" that seems to accompany love, for that will fade away with time, and only the timeless will remain. What is left is pure Love, and with it, Joy, for these gifts rest in a far more Real place than this material world.
Until tomorrow,
Journeyman
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