why are we here?

We came here to love our pain. Whatever our challenge, our circumstance that we resist, the thing we avoid, all that makes up our suffering…we came here to see and experience it as love.

How do you experience pain as love?

You know it’s there for you. It’s your catalyst to open. To be open to receive. To ask.

How do you come to the place of knowing it’s there for you?

Because it’s there. Everything in our reality is there FOR us, not against us.

This reminds me of the “Serenity Prayer”:

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

We can only begin to see pain as love with FAITH. Faith that you have the capacity and soul to handle - to love - all that is present in your life. You are the one - your love is the one that embraces the struggle. Your love, meaning the place you came from, the moving energy of God, the absolute power of grace, the indescribable presence that is love. This is a power, a power greater than the mind that creates suffering. This power LIVES in you and only knows love. It is in awe and honors what is. When we are identified with the pain, our awareness is fully absorbed in the reality of it. The pain is all just a message, a signal to hold your attention. Asking what do you (the pain) need or what would love do, opens the space for relief to enter. For love to be known. Suffering is an opportunity to uncover more of who we are.

You must be willing to open your mind, beyond the stories and thoughts that have created your reality until now. Crack the door, let the light in.

One form of suffering I have been traversing is heartbreak...

The missing of another human; a human that created an experience of being seen, heard and touched with adoration holds so much power in the psyche. The power is alive through the connection experienced. Sharing who you are in a relationship and giving your awareness to another in love, creates an energy all its own. An energy that harbors all the experiences of grief and ecstasy and your heart in a person. On this human journey, most of us realize connection through each other. We experience ourselves through another. When the other that you shared that “love” with is no longer physically present in your life, we can feel as if we have lost our connection to love itself. When what happened is, the power of love was given to the container of the relationship. That person, that relationship, was an expression of love. The journey continues with love even if the relationship ends. If the mind keeps associating “love” only with that person, your heart cannot be free to see the love that never left. Love is always present; people may leave us, we may leave people, but LOVE stays. Heartbreak is unraveling the love that the relationship gave you and that you expressed in creating the connection to love. Our relationships act like bridges to our heart, to discovering who we are at our essence. Our connections with another are simply connections to ourselves. In the intimacy of love relationships, the connection we experience is a portal to knowing love in a deeper, more expansive way.

Love takes up more space in our life as we recognize we all possess this power of love within us. It certainly feels more real and alive when another person is there in human flesh, experiencing life with you, but the creation and existence of love itself is not exclusive to one connection or any one relationship. Love pervades all things and people…like a stream constantly flowing, we carry this flowing energy through us. To experience the merging of streams with someone else, it feels like more of yourself is there. It’s an experience of expansion into more of who you are. The beautiful thing is when we “lose” someone we love, we don’t lose the love. We may lose the place we gave our love, but through the love the relationship activated, we are expanding our capacity to love harder. The pain of loss in human form is a kind of awakening to ourselves. Not only to our humanness, but to realizing the power of BEING love in human form.

We are all connected and traveling unique journeys to grow deeper into love. My wish is that we all find whatever it is we’re looking for, longing for and realize we are already there. We are living it. We are in heaven now. Love never sleeps. Our journey is to be the dream and wake up out of it. Because we are not an illusion, we are infinite love in motion.