Lately we have been called upon to make hard choices using clear thinking and measured decisions, all good, of course, when life needs our best minds and bravest choices. But in all of this, let us remember that the heart needs to be called upon to bring its love and support into play when life shows us an ugly face. The brainy mind has its broad spectrum of ideas and attitudes for guidance and direction. Now let us not forget the sweetnesses of the heart’s nuances as it lightens everything with its softer insights.
Love heals....
Love heals....
While we may need our best thoughts and movements when life throws a demand at us, we must never forget that the healing power of love lifts and restores everything and everyone. Love heals; there is no mistaking this. Love opens; we see this every day when tightly-closed places give way to caring ministrations brought by open-handed individuals. Love reveals; the darkest, secretly-held moments open to the light of love simply given when it seems there is nothing else to bring.
The cloak of love to ease....
The cloak of love to ease....
Why do we seek to separate wisdom from love when they so obviously work together? Muscular, brain-powered awareness needs the cloak of love to ease the sometimes-battering that we must endure. A modern-day philosopher once wrote that “the life that has not loved has not lived, it is still dead.” Let us, then, never inflict such a thing upon ourselves!
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